Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne, (21 February 1903 – 7 January 1967) was a British politician.

Early life

Ivor Grosvenor Wimborne was born on 21 February 1903 and was the son of

Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, KP, PC (16 January 1873 – 14 June 1939), known as Lord Ashby St Ledgers from 1910 to 1914 and as Lord Wimborne from 1914 to 1918, was a British politician and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of ...

(1873–1939), and his wife the Hon. Alice Katherine Sibell (died 1948). His maternal grandfather was

Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury Robert Wellesley Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury (25 January 1834 – 13 November 1918) was a British politician. Early life He was the eldest of five sons and two daughters born to the former Hon. Charlotte Arbuthnot Wellesley and Robert Grosvenor, ...

(1834–1918). He was educated at

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and

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Career

After Cambridge, he served with the

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( TA), achieving the rank of lieutenant. From 1935 to 1939, he was National

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(MP) for Brecon and Radnor. In the latter year he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the

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Personal life

Lord Wimborne married Lady Mabel Edith, daughter of

Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester (31 May 1874 – 29 October 1959), styled Lord Stavordale until 1905, was a British peer and philanthropist. Background and education Fox-Strangways was the eldest child of Henry Fox-S ...

(1874–1959), in 1938.

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for the wedding. He died in January 1967, aged 63, and was succeeded in his title by his son Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest (1939–1993).

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"KENSINGTON WEDDING"
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