Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Churchill Guest, 2nd Baron Wimborne (right) with Hernando Fitz-James Stuart, 14th Duke of Peñaranda de Duero at the Westchester Cup in New York City (1914)

Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne PC (born January 16, 1873 - June 14, 1939 ) was a British nobleman and politician of the Liberal Party , who was a member of the House of Commons for ten years , then a member of the House of Lords , as well Was Paymaster General and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland .

Life

Family background and member of the House of Commons

He was the son of Ivor Bertie Guest , who had been raised to hereditary nobility on April 30, 1880 as 1st Baron Wimborne, of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset, and of Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, a daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough .

After visiting the Eton College he studied at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . After 1898 without success for the Liberal Party in the constituency Plymouth was running for a parliamentary seat, he made in 1900 during the Second Boer War as a captain and honorary Major (Honorary Major) his military service in the 7th  Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry , a volunteer cavalry regiment from Dorset .

On February 16, 1900, he, who was also High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1900, was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons for the Liberal Party and initially represented the constituency of Plymouth until January 12, 1906 , before he was elected from January 12, 1906 to on January 15, 1910 as a Member of the House of Commons, the constituency Cardiff-District of Boroughs represented.

Paymaster General, Member of the House of Lords and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Easter proclamation for the Easter Rising 1916

He was appointed Paymaster General on March 5, 1910 by Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in 1910 to succeed Richard Causton, 1st Baron Southwark , and held this position until he was succeeded by Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie in 1912 he became Privy Counselor (PC) on March 5, 1910 . At times he also served as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) of Glamorgan and Dorset.

By a letters patent from March 15, 1910 he was raised with the title Baron Ashby St. Ledgers , of Ashby St. Ledgers, in the County of Northampton itself in the hereditary nobility and thereby a member of the House of Lords.

Afterwards he belonged between 1913 and 1915 as Lord-in-Waiting to the court of King George V. When his father died on February 22, 1914 he inherited his title as 2nd Baron Wimborne , of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset and 3rd. Baronet Guest, of Dowlais, in the County of Glamorgan.

On February 17, 1915, he succeeded John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held this post as representative of the king until his replacement by John French, 1st Earl of Ypres on 9th February 1915 . May 1918. During his tenure, from April 24 to 30, 1916, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin , an attempt by militant Irish Republicans to force Ireland to gain independence from Great Britain. Although it failed militarily, it is considered a turning point in the history of Ireland , which ultimately led to independence.

Shortly after the end of his tenure as Lord Lieutenant he was conferred the hereditary title Viscount Wimborne , of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset on June 15, 1918 . He was also temporarily director of the Royal Commission on Coast Erosion and Afforestation and director of Barclays Bank .

Marriage and offspring

On February 10, 1902, he married Alice Katherine Sibell Grosvenor, daughter of Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury , who was a Member of the House of Commons between 1865 and 1874. The marriage had three children:

• Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne (1903–1967), heir to his titles of nobility
• Rosemary Sibell Guest (1906–1971) ⚭ Gilbert Allan Rowland Boyd, 6th Baron Kilmarnock
• Cynthia Edith Guest (1908–1994) ⚭ Thomas George Talbot (1904–1992)

Web links

• Ivor Guest at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leighrayment
• Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Wimborne 1918-1939	Ivor Grosvenor Guest
Ivor Bertie Guest	Baron Wimborne 1914-1939	Ivor Grosvenor Guest
New title created	Baron Ashby St. Ledgers 1910-1939	Ivor Grosvenor Guest
Richard Causton	Paymaster General 1910-1912	Edward Strachey
John Hamilton-Gordon	Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1915-1918	John French