Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
Born	October 27, 1905 Mandatory Palestine
Died	July 6, 1992 Hampshire, United Kingdom
Resting place	St James Churchyard, Ludgershall, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Education	Heatherdown School, Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford

Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (27 October 1905 – 6 July 1992), was an heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, lawyer, poet and novelist. He married Diana Mitford, but later divorced her.

He was born to Walter Edward Guinness (created 1st Baron Moyne in 1932), son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, and Lady Evelyn Stuart Erskine, daughter of the 14th Earl of Buchan. He attended Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire, followed by Eton College (also in Berkshire), and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1931.

As an heir to the Guinness brewing fortune and a handsome, charming young man, Bryan was an eligible bachelor. One of London's "Bright Young Things", he was an organiser of the 1929 "Bruno Hat" hoax art exhibition, held at his home in London. Also in 1929 he married the Hon. Diana Mitford, one of the Mitford sisters, and had two sons with her: Jonathan and Desmond. The couple became leaders of the London artistic and social scene and were dedicatees of Evelyn Waugh's second novel Vile Bodies. However, they divorced in 1933, after Diana deserted him for British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

Guinness remarried happily in 1936 to Elisabeth Nelson (1912-1999), of the Nelson publishing family, with whom he would have nine children.

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