Ivor Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne
Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne | |
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| Born | 2 December 1939 Colchester, England |
| Died | 17 December 1993 (aged 54) |
| Occupation | peer |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Ann Vigors, Venetia Margaret Barke |
| Children | Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne, Ilona Charlotte Guest |
| Parent(s) | Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne, Lady Mabel Edith Fox-Strangways |
Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne (2 December 1939 – 17 December 1993) was a British peer.[1]
Early life
[edit]Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest was born on 2 December 1939. He was the son of Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne (1903–1967) and his wife Lady Mabel Edith Fox-Strangways, a daughter of Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester. William Walton composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for his parents' wedding.[2]
His paternal grandfather was Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (1873–1939), who was a British politician and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916.[3] He was educated at Eton College, like his father.[4]
Personal life
[edit]He was married twice. The first was on 20 December 1966, when he married Victoria Ann Vigors. Together they had:
- Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne[5] (born 1968), who married Ieva Imsa.[6]
He later married Venetia Margaret Barker (nee Quarry); his sister-in-law was Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton (1947-2020). Together, they had:
- Ilona Charlotte Guest (born 1985), who married Oliver Hilton-Johnson in 2012.[7]
His widow, now Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, lives at Fontaine-l'Abbé, France.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Lundy, Darryl. "p. 1354 § 13538". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
- ^ "William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart". Classical Archives. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
- ^ "No. 30781". The London Gazette. 5 July 1918. p. 7940.
- ^ "Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne". thepeerage.com. The Peerage. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ Freyberg, Annabel (1 March 2013). "Rescuing the home where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ "Conqueror 575859".
- ^ a b "Mr O.R. Hilton-Johnson and the Hon Ilona Charlotte Guest". Telegraph Announcements.
External links
[edit]- "UK: Is the next generation of industrialists unwilling to take the baton?", Management Today, 1 February 1991.
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