Walter Edward Guinness was born in Dublin, Ireland and was the 3rd son of the 1st Earl of Iveagh.
From Eton he volunteered for service in the South African War, where he was wounded. In 1907 he was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Bury St Edmunds, which he continued to represent until 1931. During World War I Guinness again served with distinction in the Suffolk Yeomanry in Egypt, and at Gallipoli. In 1922 he was appointed Under Secretary for War, the first of several political appointments which culminated in his term of office as Minister of Agriculture, Nov 1925 - June 1929.
After the Conservative defeat in 1929 he retired from office and was created Baron Moyne of Bury St Edmunds. During World War II he became Secretary of State for the Colonies and Leader of the House of Lords in 1941. In August 1942 he was appointed Deputy Minister of State in Cairo, and in January 1944 Minister Resident in the Middle East. On 6 November 1944 he was assassinated in Cairo by two members of the JewishStern Gang known in Hebrew as Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) who were fighting the British government's decision to halt the entry of Jews to the British Mandate of Palestine during the Holocaust of World War II.
LordMoyne was then chosen in part for his blame on the fate of European Jewery).
Moyne's assassination was condemned by the Jewish establishment in Palestine, who began to co-operate with the British authorities in dealing with the Lehi and the Irgun.
Moyne's successor in Cairo, Sir Edward Grigg, was opposed to partition.
He was born to Walter Edward Guinness (created 1st Baron Moyne in 1932), son of the 1st Earl of Iveagh, and Lady Evelyn Stuart Erskine, daughter of the 14th Earl of Buchan.
After the war, LordMoyne served on the board of the Guinness corporation, as well as various trusts and artistic committees in Ireland.
LordMoyne died in 1992 at Biddesden, his home in Hampshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son Jonathan.
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