Ivor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne
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Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne (21 February 1903 – 7 January 1967), was a British politician.

Biography

Wimborne was the son of Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, and his wife the Hon. Alice Katherine Sibell, daughter of Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury
Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury
Robert Wellesley Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury was a British politician.He was educated at Harrow School and King's College London....

. He was educated at Eton
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 and Trinity College, Cambridge
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, and also served with the Royal Tank Corps (TA), achieving the rank of lieutenant.
From 1935 to 1939 he was National Member of Parliament
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 (MP) for Brecon and Radnor. The latter year he succeeded his father in the viscountcy and entered the House of Lords
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.

Lord Wimborne married Lady Mabel Edith, daughter of Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester
Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester
Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester GBE, FSA, DL , styled Lord Stavordale until 1905, was a British peer and philanthropist.-Background and education:...

, in 1938. William Walton
William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...

 composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for the wedding.

He died in January 1967, aged 63, and was succeeded in his title by his son Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest.

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