Ivor Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne (2 December 1939 – 17 December 1993) was a British peer.[1]

Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne
Born(1939-12-02)2 December 1939
Colchester, England
Died17 December 1993(1993-12-17) (aged 54)
Occupationpeer
Spouse(s)Victoria Ann Vigors, Venetia Margaret Barke
ChildrenIvor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne, Ilona Charlotte Guest
Parent(s)Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne, Lady Mabel Edith Fox-Strangways

Early life

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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

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He was married twice. The first was on 20 December 1966, when he married Victoria Ann Vigors. Together they had:

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

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  1. ^ Lundy, Darryl. "p. 1354 § 13538". The Peerage.[unreliable source]
  2. ^ "William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart". Classical Archives. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  3. ^ "No. 30781". The London Gazette. 5 July 1918. p. 7940.
  4. ^ "Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne". thepeerage.com. The Peerage. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. ^ Freyberg, Annabel (1 March 2013). "Rescuing the home where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Conqueror 575859".
  7. ^ a b "Mr O.R. Hilton-Johnson and the Hon Ilona Charlotte Guest". Telegraph Announcements.
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Viscount Wimborne
1967–1993
Succeeded by