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Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne
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Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (16 January 1873 – 14 June 1939) 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, son of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected to Parliament in 1900, initially as a Conservative but "crossing the floor" to join the Liberals in 1904. He sat as an MP until 1910, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashby St Ledgers, and became Paymaster General in the government of Herbert Henry 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, and in 1915 became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He served in that post for three tumultuous years. In 1918 he resigned that office, and was created Viscount Wimborne.
Guest's brother, Frederick Edward Guest, was also a Liberal and Conservative politician.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Edward George Clarke Sigismund Ferdinand Mendl |
Member of Parliament for Plymouth 2-seat constituency (with Sigismund Ferdinand Mendl, to Oct 1900 Henry Edward Duke, to 1906) 1900–1906 |
Succeeded by Thomas William Dobson Charles Edward Mallet |
| Preceded by Sir Edward James Reed |
Member of Parliament for Cardiff 1906–1910 |
Succeeded by David Alfred Thomas |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by The Lord Southwark |
Paymaster-General 1910–1912 |
Succeeded by The Lord Strachie |
| Preceded by The Lord Willingdon |
Lord-in-Waiting 1913–1915 |
Succeeded by The Lord Ranksborough |
| Preceded by The Earl of Aberdeen |
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1915–1918 |
Succeeded by The Viscount French |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by Ivor Bertie Guest |
Baron Wimborne 1914–1939 |
Succeeded by Ivor Grosvenor Guest |
| New creation | Baron Ashby St Ledgers 1910–1939 |
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| Viscount Wimborne 1918–1939 |
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Categories: 1873 births | 1939 deaths | Liberal Party Lords-in-Waiting | Lords Lieutenant of Ireland | Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom | Liberal MPs (UK) | Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Welsh constituencies | Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies | UK MPs 1895-1900 | UK MPs 1900-1906 | UK MPs 1906-1910