Background
Jonathan Guinness was born on March 16, 1930 in London, United Kingdom. A member of the Guinness family, he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
Jonathan Guinness was born on March 16, 1930 in London, United Kingdom. A member of the Guinness family, he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
Jonathan Guinness was educated at Eton College and the University of Oxford.
Jonathan worked as a journalist and then as a merchant banker. From 1970 to 1974 he was a Leicestershire County Councillor. Lord Moyne was a non-executive director from 1961 to 1988 of the company set up by his family. His book "Requiem for a Family Business" gives an uninvolved insider's account of the corporate developments leading to the Guinness share-trading fraud.
Lord Moyne twice stood unsuccessfully as Parliamentary Candidate for the Conservative Party.
Lord Moyne has been twice married, with children. In 1951 he married Ingrid Wyndham (later Lady Kelvedon) who died in 2009 and by whom he had two sons and a daughter. They divorced in 1963. Then in 1964 he married Suzanne Lisney, later known as Sue, Lady Moyne, who died in 2005 of lung cancer, by whom he had a third son and a second daughter. He also had a mistress, Susan ('Shoe') Taylor, and a further three children by her.