Guest, son of the 1st Baron Wimborne, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected to parliament in 1900. He sat as an MP until 1910, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashby St Ledgers, and became Paymaster General in the government of Herbert Henry Asquith. He served as Paymaster General until 1912, and later served as a Lord in Waiting on King George V. In 1914 he succeeded his father as Baron Wimborne, and in 1915 became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He served in that post for three tumultuous years. In 1918 he resigned that office, and was created Viscount Wimborne.
"IVOR BERTIE GUESTWIMBORNE, 1ST Baron (1835-1914), British politician, was born at Dowlais Aug. 29 1835, the eldest son of Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st bart., of the firm of Guest, Keen and Nettlef old (the Dowlais Iron Works).
Lord Wimborne married in 1865 Lady Cornelia Spencer Churchill, eldest daughter of the 7th Duke of Marlborough.
Lord Wimborne's eldest son, IvoRChurchillGuest, was born Jan. 16 1873, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.