Lieutenant-Colonel Christian Henry Charles Guest (15 February 1874 – 9 October 1957), usually known as Henry Guest, was a

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politician in the United Kingdom.

Family

He was the second son of

Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet, DL (29 August 1835 – 22 February 1914) was a British industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family. Early life Ivor Bertie Guest was born at Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, the s ...

and his wife Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, an aunt of the future Prime Minister

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. His elder brother Ivor Churchill Guest was one of the last Lord-Lieutenants of Ireland, and his younger brothers

Frederick Guest Frederick Edward "Freddie" Guest, (14 June 1875 – 28 April 1937) was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party, 1917–1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air be ...

and

Oscar Guest Oscar Montague Guest (24 August 1888 – 8 May 1958) was a politician in the United Kingdom, initially with the Liberal Party and later as a Conservative. He was twice elected as a Member of Parliament (MP). Family He was the youngest of ...

were also members of parliament. In 1911, he married the Honourable Frances Lyttelton (1885–1918), daughter of the 8th Viscount Cobham. They had one son, John Guest (1913–1997).

Military career

Guest obtained a commission in 3rd Battalion of the Lancaster Fusiliers in 1892, and in the

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in 1894. He served in the

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, South Africa, 1899–1902 (despatches, Queen's medal 5 clasps, King's medal 2 clasps),'GUEST, Lt-Col Hon. (Christian) Henry (Charles)’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 and 1901 was seconded for service on the Staff. After the end of the war in South Africa he was from June 1902 Aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Burn-Murdoch, General officer in command of the

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District. He returned home from South Africa on the ''SS Saxon'' in late December 1902. Guest then served in India 1903–07. Upon his return to the UK he attended Staff College in 1907, and was instructor in Cavalry School. He later served in

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1914–15 and 1918.

Political career

His younger brother Freddie was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for

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at the

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, but was unseated after election irregularities by his constituency agent. At the resulting by-election in June 1910, Henry was elected to succeed him. At the

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, Henry was returned for the Pembroke and Haverfordwest constituency and Freddie was re-elected for East Dorset. When his Pembroke and Haverford West seat was abolished for the 1918 general election, Guest stood as a

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candidate in the Wandsworth Central seat in

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, where he came a poor third. He returned to the

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at the 1922 general election, as

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MP for Bristol North. However, he was defeated at the 1923 election, and stood aside in

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in favour of his brother Freddie. Henry did not stand for

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again until his brother's death in 1937, when he won the by-election for Freddie's seat of

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as a Conservative. He held that seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election.

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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Pembrokeshire constituencies