OBITUARY
CAPTAIN F.E. GUEST, M.P.
(Received April 29, 10.25 a.m.)
LONDON, April 28,
The death has occurred of Captain the Rt. Hon. ,F. E. Guest, Conservative M.P. for. Drake.
Captain Guest was born in 1875, ,and was a son of the first Baron Wimborne. He served ,at the White Nile, in .1900, in South Africa, in the European War (being A.D.C. to Sir John, French), and at East Africa, where he won the D.S.O. In three of these campaigns he was mentioned in dispatches. He was previously private secretary to Mr. Win-
ston Churchill, and from 1906 he contested various seats, finally entering the House of Commons for the Stroud Division of Gloucestershrie in 1923. In 1924 he was returned for Bristol North, and in 1930 left the Liberal Party and joined the Conservatives. In 1931 he was elected by the Drake Division of Plymouth. In 1912 he was appointed Treasurer of H.M. Household, and five years later became Patronage Secretary to the Treasury. Later he was secretary to the Secretary for Air. He married Miss Amy Phipps, !and had two sons.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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