Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Wimborne PC |
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| Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
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In office 17 February 1915 – 9 May 1918 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister |
H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Aberdeen |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount French of Ypres |
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| Born |
Ivor Churchill Guest 16 January 1873 Wimborne House, Arlington Street, London |
| Died | 14 June 1939 (aged 66) Wimborne House, Arlington Street, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Conservative Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Hon. Alice Grosvenor (1880–1948) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, PC (16 January 1873 – 14 June 1939), known as Lord Ashby St Ledgers from 1910 to 1914 and as Lord Wimborne from 1914 was a British politician, and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising.
Guest was the son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia, daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough. He was the elder brother of Frederick Guest, Oscar Guest and Henry Guest and a first cousin of Winston Churchill. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Dorset Yeomanry on 9 May 1896. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he volunteered for service and was appointed a lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 24 February 1900. He was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with two clasps. After returning to the United Kingdom he was promoted to captain on 18 January 1902.
He was elected to Parliament for Plymouth in a by-election in February 1900 (a seat he had unsuccessfully contested in 1898), as a Conservative, and retained his seat in the general election of 1900. In 1904, during the controversy within the Conservative Party over adopting protectionism, Guest and other members of his family followed Churchill into the Liberal Party in support of free trade. He sat as an MP until 1910, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashby St Ledgers, of Ashby St Ledgers in the County of Northampton, and became Paymaster General in the government of H. H. 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. At the start of World War I he was appointed to the staff of the newly formed 10th (Irish) Division under Lieutenant-General Sir Bryan Mahon at the Curragh Camp.
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