Background
He was the son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and his wife Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, an aunt of the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
He was the son of Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and his wife Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill, an aunt of the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
They had one son.
Guest obtained a commission in 3rd Battalion of the Lancaster Fusiliers in 1892, and in the 1st Royal Dragoons in 1894. He served in the Second Boer War, South Africa, 1899–1901 (despatches, Queen's medal 5 clasps, King’s medal 2 clasps). In 1901 he was seconded for service on the Staff, then served in India 1902-1907.
Upon his return to the United Kingdom he attended Staff College in 1907, and was Instructor in Cavalry School.
He later served in World War I 1914-1915 and 1918. At the resulting by-election in June 1910, Henry was elected to succeed him.
At the December 1910 general election, Henry was returned for the Pembroke and Haverfordwest constituency and Freddie was re-elected for East Dorset. When his Pembroke and Haverford West seat was abolished for the 1918 general election, Guest stood as a Coalition Liberal candidate in the Wandsworth Central seat in South London, where he came a poor third.
He returned to the House of Commons at the 1922 general election, as National Liberal Member of Parliament for Bristol North.
He held that seat until his defeat at the 1945 general election.
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