Ivor Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne (2 December 1939 – 17 December 1993) was a British peer.[1]

Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne
Born(1939-12-02)2 December 1939
Colchester, England
Died17 December 1993(1993-12-17) (aged 54)
Occupationpeer
Spouse(s)Victoria Ann Vigors, Venetia Margaret Barke
ChildrenIvor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne, Ilona Charlotte Guest
Parent(s)Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne, Lady Mabel Edith Fox-Strangways

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 Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester. William Walton composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for his parents' wedding.[2]

His paternal grandfather was Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (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 Easter Rising in 1916.[3] He was educated at Eton College, like his father.[4]

Personal life

He was married twice. The first was on 20 December 1966, when he married Victoria Ann Vigors. Together they had:

He later married Venetia Margaret Barker (nee Quarry); his sister-in-law was Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton (1947-2020). Together, they had:

  • Ilona Charlotte Guest (born 1985), who married Oliver Hilton-Johnson in 2012.[7]

His widow, now Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, lives at Fontaine-l'Abbé, France.[7]

References
  1. Lundy, Darryl. "p. 1354 § 13538". The Peerage.
  2. "William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart". Classical Archives. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  3. "No. 30781". The London Gazette. 5 July 1918. p. 7940.
  4. "Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne". thepeerage.com. The Peerage. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. Freyberg, Annabel (1 March 2013). "Rescuing the home where the Gunpowder Plot was hatched". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  6. "Conqueror 575859".
  7. "Mr O.R. Hilton-Johnson and the Hon Ilona Charlotte Guest". Telegraph Announcements.


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