Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (born October 27, 1905 , † July 6, 1992 ) was a British aristocrat of Irish descent, writer and brewery heir.

Bryan Guinness was born in October 1905 to Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne , and his wife Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine. After his father was assassinated in Cairo in 1944 , Guinness inherited the title of Baron Moyne .

family

Bryan Guinness married Diana Mitford on January 30, 1929 . In 1934 the marriage, from which two children, Jonathan and Desmond , emerged, was divorced again. On September 21, 1936, he married his second wife, Elisabeth Nelson (April 27, 1912 - January 1999). Nine children were born from this marriage.

Works (selection)

Plays

• The Fragrant Concubine, A Tragedy (1938)
• A Riverside Charade (1954)

Poems

• Twenty-three Poems (1931)
• Under the eyelid (1935)
• Reflexions (1947)
• Collected Poems (1956)
• The Rose in the Tree (1964)
• The Clock (1973)
• On a Ledge (1992)

Children's books

• The Story of Johnny and Jemima (1936)
• The Children of the Desert (1947)
• The Animal's Breakfast (1950)
• Catriona and the Grasshopper (1957)
• Priscilla and the Prawn (1960)
• The Girl with the Flower (1966)

Novels

• Singing Out of Tune (1933)
• Landscape with Figures (1934)
• A Week by the Sea (1936)
• Lady Crushwell's Companion (1938)
• A Fugue of Cinderellas (1956)
• Leo and Rosabelle (1961)
• The Giant's Eye (1964)
• The Engagement (1969)
• Hellenic Flirtation (1978)

memoirs

• Potpourri (1982)
• Personal Patchwork 1939-45 (1986)
• Dairy not kept (1988)

Web links

• Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 17, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter Guinness	Baron Moyne 1944-1992	Jonathan Guinness