Ivor Guest, 3rd Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Fox-Strangways Guest was born on 2 December 1939. He was the son of Ivor Grosvenor Guest, 2nd Viscount Wimborne (1903–1967), and Mabel Edith Fox-Strangways, who married in 1938. William Walton composed "Set me as a seal upon thine heart" for his parents' wedding.[2] His maternal grandfather was Giles Fox-Strangways, 6th Earl of Ilchester (1874–1959). His paternal grandfather was Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (1873–1939), who was a British politician and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916.[3] He was educated at Eton College, like his father.[4]

He was married twice. The first was on 20 December 1966, when he married Victoria Ann Vigors. Together they had:

• Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne[5] (born 1968), who married Ieva Imsa.[6]

He later married Venetia Margaret Barker (nee Quarry); his sister-in-law was Miranda Macmillan, Countess of Stockton (1947-2020). Together, they had:

• Ilona Charlotte Guest (born 1985), who married Oliver Hilton-Johnson in 2012.[7]

His widow, now Dowager Viscountess Wimborne, lives at Fontaine-l'Abbé, France.[7]

• "UK: Is the next generation of industrialists unwilling to take the baton?", Management Today, 1 February 1991.