Background
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was born on May 20, 1906 in London, United Kingdom.
1907
Portrait with his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Phipps, by John Singer Sargent
1932
Mrs Frederick E. Guest and her son Winston Guest attend the United Hunts at Belmont Park
1935
Winston Guest
1939
Westbury, New York
Polo Player Winston Guest at the Meadow Brook Club
1950
Mrs. Winston Guest wearing floral dress with short-sleeve jacket by Mainbocher's La Galerie, with pearls. (Photo by Clifford Coffin/Condé Nast via Getty Images)
1953
C.Z. and Winston Guest
1953
Saratoga Springs, New York
Mrs Winston F.C. Guest and Mrs Stephan Sanford standing in a private box at Saratoga Race Course
1958
Saratoga, New York
Winston F.C. Guest and his wife, C.Z. Guest, with an unidentified man walking at the Saratoga Race Course
1962
Mrs. Winston Guest
1966
C.Z. and Winston Guest
1966
Locust Valley, New York
Oscar de la Renta with Winston F. C. Guest at the Piping Rock Horse Show
1971
C.Z. and Winston Guest
C.Z. married Winston Guest in Havana, Cuba at the home of Ernest Hemingway
Portrait Of Mrs. Winston Guest With A Dog by Cecil Beaton
Greenbrier, White Sulphur, West Virginia
Mrs. Winston Guest and Milton Holden sitting on the grass (Photo by Constantin Joffe/Conde Nast via Getty Images)
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was born on May 20, 1906 in London, United Kingdom.
In 1918, during World War I, his mother turned over their London home, Alford House on Park Lane, to be used by the American Red Cross as a hospital for the American Navy.[6] In 1919, his parents entered into a separation agreement and his mother received custody of him, thereafter living in the United States. Winston Guest graduated from Yale University in 1927 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1942.
After graduating from Columbia University Law School, Winston Guest was appointed law secretary for Joseph C. Baldwin III, minority leader of the Board of Alderman. He, along with Alexander Hamilton, a descendant of Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary, was paid $1 a year for his work.
Winston Guest was a member of the international team of the United States which won the International Polo Cup in 1930, 1936 and 1939. He was the only player in the history of the Indoor Polo Association with the top rating of ten goals. In 1934, while being the highest rated player of indoor polo, Winston Guest was elected the head of Indoor Polo Association. Along with him came Elbridge T. Gerry as executive vice president and Michael G. Phipps as vice president.
In 1934, Winston Guest married Helena Woolworth McCann, daughter of Charles E. F. McCann and Helena Maud Woolworth McCann (1878–1938). Her maternal grandfather was F. W. Woolworth, the American business magnate. They subsequently divorced in 1944. With her, his two sons: Winston Alexander Guest (b. 1936), who married Helen Mane Elizabeth Shields in 1967. Frederick E. Guest II (b. 1938), who married Stephanie Wanger (b. 1943), daughter of Walter Wanger and Joan Bennett, in 1963. They divorced and he married Carole Baldoff in 1988.
In 1947, Winston Guest married Lucy Douglas Cochrane (1920-2003), later known as C. Z. Guest. With her, he had a son and a daughter: Alexander Michael Douglas Cochrane Guest (b. 1954), who married Elizabeth Geacintov, a daughter of Dr. Cyril Geacintov (a former president of Russian Nobility Association in America), in 1986. Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest (b. 1963), a debutante.
Frederick Edward "Freddie" Guest was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party, 1917-1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air between 1921 and 1922. He won the Bronze medal with the British polo team in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Amy Phipps was the daughter of Henry Phipps, Jr., an American businessman and philanthropist.
Helena Woolworth McCann attended Miss Hewitt's School, Miss Chapin's School, and graduated from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut.
Lucy Douglas "C. Z." Guest (February 19, 1920 - November 8, 2003) was an American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon.
Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 2nd Baronet (29 August 1835 - 22 February 1914) was a Welsh industrialist and a member of the prominent Guest family.
John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (2 June 1822 - 4 July 1883) styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840 to 1857, was a British Conservative cabinet minister, politician, peer, and nobleman. He was the paternal grandfather of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Raymond Richard Guest (November 25, 1907 - December 31, 1991) was an American businessman, thoroughbred race horse owner and polo player. From 1965 to 1968, he was United States Ambassador to Ireland.
Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest (born November 28, 1963) is a New York socialite, author and the Debutante of the Decade for the 1980s of the International Debutante Ball in New York City.
