Restored gates at Elmore Court - geograph

Sir Anselm William Edward Guise, 6th Baronet (18 September 1888 – 12 September 1970) was an English soldier, landowner, and magistrate, of

Elmore Court Elmore Court is a grade II* listed mansion, located at Elmore in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England. The original building dates from between 1564 and 1588. History The house has been the family seat of the Guise Baronets for near ...

, Gloucester. He was

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in 1926.

Life

Guise was the son of Sir William Francis George Guise, 5th Baronet, by his marriage to Ada Caroline Coope, and was educated at

Eton Eton most commonly refers to Eton College, a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. Eton may also refer to: Places *Eton, Berkshire, a town in Berkshire, England * Eton, Georgia, a town in the United States * Éton, a commune in the Meuse dep ...

. During the

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, he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Yeomanry and rose to the rank of captain.''Burke’s Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), p. 1703 On 17 January 1920, he succeeded his father in the Guise baronetcy, created for an ancestor in 1783. His father left him an estate of , part of the manor of Elmore''The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects'' (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1921), p. 13 which in 1262 had been granted to their ancestor Anselm de Gyse by John of Burgh, a son of

Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (; ; ; c.1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England and Ireland during the reigns of King John and of his son and successor King Henry III and, as a consequenc ...

, after Anselm had married a cousin of Burgh's. Within a few months of inheriting the estate, Guise sold much of it, while keeping Elmore Court and a home farm, and also Lassington Wood, which he soon gave to Gloucester County Borough Council, to celebrate the Guise family's long association with the city. Guise also inherited an art collection, and in 1921 he sold

Francesco Botticini Francesco Botticini (real name Francesco di Giovanni, 1446 – 16 January 1498) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He was born in Florence, where he remained active until his death in 1498. Although there are only few documented wor ...

‘s painting “Madonna Adoring the Christ Child”, which had belonged to his mother's family, the Coopes. In 1922 Guise was commissioned as a

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for Gloucestershire, and in 1926 was “pricked” (appointed) as High Sheriff of the county. On 23 January 1924, Guise married Nina Margaret Sophie Grant, a daughter of Sir James Augustus Grant, first (and last) Baronet, and they had three children, Philippa Margaret (born 1926), John Grant (1927–2007), later 7th Baronet, and Christopher James Guise (born 1930), later 8th Baronet. Their daughter Philippa married Alastair Hugh Joseph Fraser, of Moniack Castle, the eldest son of Major Alastair Fraser and Lady Sibyl Grimston. Between 1951 and 1964 they had four sons and two daughters.''Burke’s Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), p. 2414

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Captain Anselm William Edward GUISE. Gloucestershire Yeomanry
at nationalarchives.gov.uk {{DEFAULTSORT:Guise, Anselm William Edward 1888 births 1970 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain British Army personnel of World War I High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire People educated at Eton College