The Guest family are a British family of the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries who, among other things built a huge industrial

Industry

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 business in the Dowlais Iron Company and later in Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds.

John Guest

John Guest (1722-1785/25 November 1787) was a brewer

Brewing

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, farmer

Farmer

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 and coal

Coal

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 merchant

Merchant

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 in Broseley

Broseley

Broseley is a small town in Shropshire, England with a population of 4,912 . The River Severn flows to the north and east of the town. Broseley has a town council and is part of the area controlled by Shropshire Council. The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 to link Broseley with...

, Shropshire

Shropshire

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. He collaborated with Isaac Wilkinson

Isaac Wilkinson

Isaac Wilkinson was an English industrialist, one of the founders of the iron industry and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution. However, his business ethics were precarious and his commercial affairs frequently chaotic. He became much addicted to litigation.-Early life:Wilkinson was born in...

 in starting the Plymouth Ironworks

Plymouth Ironworks

The Plymouth Ironworks was a major 18th century and 19th century ironworks located at Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales....

 in 1763 and there came to the attention of Thomas Lewis

Thomas Lewis (industrialist)

Thomas Lewis was one of the founders of the Dowlais Ironworks, one of the largest ironworks in Wales.-Career:Born into a landed family from Llanishen, Thomas Lewis became an iron-master. He already owned the Pentyrch blast furnace and several small forges when he became a partner in Dowlais...

 and the other Dowlais partners

Partnership

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. He moved to Dowlais and was appointed manager of the works on 30 April 1767. He built his first house at Morlais Brook, Gellifaelog but, isolated from his family, became a "lonely and melancholy man". By 1767, Guest had moved most of his family to Dowlais. His children were:

• Thomas Guest (infra); and
• Sarah Guest who married William Taitt, (died 1815) another of the Dowlais partners.

Thomas Guest

Thomas Guest (died 1807) continued his father's work at Dowlais. He married Jemima Revel Phillips of Shifnal

Shifnal

Shifnal is a small market town in Shropshire, England. It forms part of The Wrekin constituency, and is about east of Telford. It has a railway station on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line and is near to the M54 motorway.-Early medieval time:...

, Shropshire. They had three daughters and two sons:

• John Josiah Guest (infra); and
• Thomas Revel Guest (1790–1837), a partner
  Partnership
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   in Dowlais with two share
  Share (finance)
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  s and the firm's agent in Ireland
  Ireland
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  . Along with his brother, he was one of the promoters and original shareholders of the Taff Vale Railway
  Taff Vale Railway
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  . On his death he left one share to his brother and one to his nephew Edward John Hutchins
  Edward John Hutchins
  Edward John Hutchins was a Liberal MP, railway director and Freemason.-Birth and education:...
  
  .

Thomas did much to modernise production at Dowlais, employing several of his relatives, including:

• Cornelius Guest;
• Charles Guest; and
• George Guest.

Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet

John Josiah Guest (1785–1852) married:

• 11 March 1817: Maria Elizabeth Ranken (died January 1818), the third daughter of William Ranken from Ireland
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
  .
• 29 July 1833:Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie
  Lady Charlotte Guest
  Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, , later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English businesswoman and translator...
  
   (1812–1895), eldest child of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey
  Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey
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  . They had ten children, including:
  • Ivor Bertie Guest (infra)
  • Montague Guest
    Montague Guest
    Montague John Guest , was a British Liberal politician.A member of the prominent Guest family, he was the third son of Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, and his second wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey...
    
    .
  • Arthur Guest
    Arthur Guest
    Arthur Edward Guest , was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Guest was the fifth son of Sir Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, and Lady Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey...
    
    .

Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne

Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835–1914), married Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill (1847–1927), daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

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, aunt of Sir Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

. They had four daughters and five sons:

• Ivor Churchill Guest (infra);
• Henry Guest
  Henry Guest
  Christian Henry Charles Guest , usually known as Henry Guest, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.- Family :...
  
   (1874–1957);
• Frederick Edward Guest (infra);
• Lionel Guest (1880–1935), married Flora Bigelow Dodge, daughter of John Bigelow
  John Bigelow
  John Bigelow was an American lawyer and statesman.-Life:Born in Malden-on-Hudson, New York, John Bigelow, Sr.graduated from Union College in 1835 where he was a member of the Sigma Phi Society and the Philomathean Society, and was admitted to the bar in 1838...
  
  , in 1905. Flora was the author of Laughter and Tears (1926) and the mother, by her first marriage, of John Bigelow Dodge
  Johnnie Dodge
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  ;
• Oscar Guest
  Oscar Guest
  Hon. Oscar Montague Guest was a politician in the United Kingdom, initially with the Liberal Party and later as a Conservative...
  
   (1888–1958).

Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Churchill married Alice Katherine Sibell Grosvenor, daughter of Robert Wellesley Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury and they had two daughters and one son:

• Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne.

Frederick Edward Guest

Frederick married Amy Phipps (1873–1959), daughter of American industrialist Henry Phipps. The couple had two sons and a daughter all of whom eventually emigrated to the U.S..

• Raymond Richard Guest
  Raymond R. Guest
  Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE Commander Raymond Richard Guest OBE (November 25, 1907 – December 31, 1991 was an American businessman, thoroughbred race horse owner and polo player. He was United States Ambassador to Ireland.-Biography:...
  
   (1907–1991)
• Winston Frederick Churchill Guest
  Winston Frederick Churchill Guest
  -Biography:Winston Guest was the son of Frederick Guest, a British politician, and his wife, Amy Phipps, who was the daughter of American businessman and philanthropist Henry Phipps, Jr. Guest was born in 1906. He won the International Polo Cup in 1930, 1936 and 1939. He died in 1982 at Nassau...
  
  , (1906–1982) a polo
  Polo
  Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
  
   player who married 1) Helena Woolworth McCann (div. 1934), granddaughter of F. W. Woolworth, 2) Lucy Douglas Cochrane
  C. Z. Guest
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  (C. Z. Guest).

Winston F. Guest had two sons with Helena Woolworth McCann:

1. Winston Alexander Guest Jr.
2. Frederick E. Guest II

Winston F. Guest had a son and a daughter with Lucille Douglas Cochrane:

1. Alexander Michael Douglas Dudley Guest
2. Cornelia Guest
   • Diana Guest (1909–1994). Married 1) Marc Sevastopoulo, 2) Count Jean de la Valdène, 3) Allen Manning.

She had two children with Count Jean de la Valdène:

1. Guy Winston de Gaillard de la Valdène
2. Lorraine Aimee de Gaillard de la Valdène