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Encyclopedia > Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (16 January 1873 - 14 June 1939) was a British Liberal politician, and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising.


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.



Preceded by:
The Lord Southwark
Paymaster-General
1910-1912
Succeeded by:
The Lord Strachie
Preceded by:
The Earl of Aberdeen
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1915-1918
Succeeded by:
The Viscount French



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Ivor Bertie Guest Wimborne - LoveToKnow 1911 (325 words)
"IVOR BERTIE GUEST WIMBORNE, 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, IvoR Churchill Guest, was born Jan. 16 1873, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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