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Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 16 March 1930), is a British peer and businessman. A member of the
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, he is the elder of the two sons of
Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, (27 October 1905 – 6 July 1992) was an heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, and a lawyer, poet and novelist. He was briefly married to Diana Mitford. Early life He was born to ...
, and his first wife
Diana Mitford Diana, Lady Mosley (''née'' Freeman-Mitford; 17 June 191011 August 2003) was one of the Mitford sisters. In 1929 she married Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, with whom she was part of the Bright Young Things social group o ...
(later Lady Mosley). Until his retirement, he was a
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er with Messrs Leopold Joseph.


Early life

Guinness was educated at
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and the
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. He worked as a journalist and then as a merchant banker. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Leicestershire County Councillor.


Conservative Party

Guinness stood twice unsuccessfully as a parliamentary candidate for the
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, at both the 1973 Lincoln by-election (notable for the election of Dick Taverne) and the 1976 Coventry North West by-election.


Monday Club

He was a long-standing and early member (1968) of the
Conservative Monday Club The Conservative Monday Club (usually known as the Monday Club) is a British political pressure group, aligned with the Conservative Party, though no longer endorsed by it. It also has links to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Ulster Unioni ...
, serving on several of its committees. He was a member of the club's executive council in 1971, when he became chairman of their 'Action Fund'. In the Spring 1972 edition of ''Monday World'' he contributed an article entitled "The Club Today – Opportunities and Growing Pains". He was subsequently elected national chairman on 5 June following, fighting off challenges from
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MP, and Timothy Stroud. ''
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'' and ''
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'' referred to his election as "a right-wing victory". At the club's annual general meeting in April 1973 Guinness retained the chairmanship for another year, defeating
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by 30 percent of the vote. In mid-1974 he was invited to address conservative students at
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, but was "prevented from entering by a solid wall of militant protesters hurling abuse". Guinness was a supporter of Rhodesia and, with John Stokes and the Lord Barnby addressed a Monday Club meeting on the issue in 1974 in Caxton Hall. On 10 October 1989, at the Conservative Party Conference, he chaired a fringe meeting organised by the Young Monday Club, advertised as ''The End of the English? – Immigration and Repatriation''. The other speakers were MPs Tim Janman and
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. As chairman of the club's Race Relations & Immigration Committee, he also wrote the same month to all Club members; "There has been a lot of ill-thought out agitation following events in
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, urging the government to amend the
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so as to give the right of UK residence to more than three million people from
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who hold British passports. At the time of writing the government has stayed firm on this, but it is under pressure. If you have not already done so, please write to your M.P., your local and national newspapers, or the Prime Minister expressing support for the government's stand. Remember, a passport is not a residence permit, but a travel document; and think of the sheer physical burden of housing and accommodating a sudden influx of this size." He was also Club Vice-Chairman until late 1990 when he was replaced by
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, MP.


Trustor

Lord Moyne was accused of involvement in a
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financial scandal. The case concerns a now defunct Swedish investment company, Trustor, of which Lord Moyne was made a figurehead director. It was alleged that Guinness was involved in the disappearance of £50,000,000 from Trustor's accounts, £35,000,000 of which were soon found on Trustor AB:s own bank account as they had never left the company. Guinness maintained that he was innocent of any wrongdoing, claiming he has been "stitched up". During the proceedings, Swedish authorities were successful in obtaining a freezing order over what little assets he had left. He was found innocent by the Swedish court.


Support for Falun Gong

Lord Moyne has spoken in support of the
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movement in China since it was banned there in 1999, as reported in
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.


Director of Guinness plc

Lord Moyne was a non-executive director from 1960 to 1988 of the company set up by his family. His book ''Requiem for a Family Business'' gives an uninvolved insider's account of the corporate developments leading to the
Guinness share-trading fraud The Guinness share-trading fraud was a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish dr ...
.


Personal life and family

Lord Moyne has been married twice and has eight children. He married firstly, in 1951 ( marriage dissolved 1963), Ingrid Wyndham, later the wife of Lord Kelvedon, with issue: *
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Catherine Ingrid Guinness (born 1 June 1952), married James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss. * Hon Jasper Jonathan Richard Guinness (9 March 1954 – 7 May 2011), who was married with two daughters. * Hon Valentine Guy Bryan Guinness (born 9 March 1959),
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to the Barony of Moyne. Lord Moyne married secondly, in 1964, Suzanne Lisney (died 2005 of lung cancerHeiress apparent
''
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'', 21 October 2007.), with issue: * Hon Sebastian Walter Denis Guinness (born 1964), who has been twice married without issue. * Hon Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness (born 1967), socialite, who married in 1987 (marriage dissolved 1999) Spyros Niarchos (born 1955), by whom she has three children. By his
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Susan "Shoe" Taylor (1944–2003), Lord Moyne has three more children: * Diana Guinness (born 1981) * Aster Guinness (born 1984) * Thomas Guinness-Taylor (born 1986) To avert a scandal over the extramarital affair with Taylor, Lord Moyne published ''Shoe – The Odyssey of a Sixties Survivor'' in 1989. '' The Sun'' newspaper ran a double-page article with pictures entitled ''Always a Mistress – Never the Bride'' on 6 July 1989. Moyne and his daughter Daphne both had letters published in the same edition of ''
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'' (16 August 2003) attacking the writer Andrew Roberts over his criticism in the same newspaper on 13 August 2003 of Jonathan's mother, Lady Mosley, following her death. Lord Moyne's younger brother,
Desmond Guinness Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Irish author writing on Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Brya ...
, died in August 2020.


References

* Copping, Robert, ''The Story of The Monday Club – The First Decade'', April 1972, Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex. * Copping, Robert, ''The Monday Club – Crisis and After'' May 1975, Current Affairs Information Service, Ilford, Essex.
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Bibliography

* Guinness, Jonathan, with Jeremy Harwood and
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, M.P., ''Ireland – Our Cuba?'', The Monday Club, London, 1970, (P/B). * Guinness, Jonathan, ''Arms for South Africa – the Moral Issue'', The Monday Club, London, 1971, (P/B). * Courtney, Anthony T, OBE, RN (Retd), .P., for Harrow East 1959–1964 ''The Enemies Within'', Foreword by the Hon. Jonathan Guinness, The Monday Club, London, 1972, (P/B). * Guinness, Jonathan, with Catherine Guinness, ''The House of Mitford'', Hutchinson & Co., London, 1984, * Guinness, Jonathan, ''Marx, the False Prophet'', in ''Marx Refuted'', edited by
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and
Colin Wilson Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his phil ...
, Ashgrove Press Ltd., Bath, (UK), 1987, * Guinness, Jonathan, ''Shoe – The Odyssey of a Sixties Survivor'', Hutchinson, London, c1989. * Guinness, Jonathan, ''Requiem for a Family Business'', Macmillan, London 1998. {{DEFAULTSORT:Moyne, Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron 1930 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Barons Moyne
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