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

Early life

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

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composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for his parents' wedding. His paternal grandfather was

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(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

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in 1916. He was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

, like his father.

Personal life

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 (born 1968), who married Ieva Imsa. He later married Venetia Margaret Barker (

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Quarry); his

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was Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton (1947-2020). Together, they had: *Ilona Charlotte Guest (born 1985), who married Oliver Hilton-Johnson in 2012. His widow, now Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, lives at Fontaine-l'Abbé, France.

References

External links

"UK: Is the next generation of industrialists unwilling to take the baton?"
''Management Today'', 1 February 1991. 1939 births 1993 deaths People educated at Eton College Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Ivor {{UK-viscount-stub