Winston Frederick Churchill Guest | |
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Portrait with his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Phipps, by John Singer Sargent, circa 1907
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Born |
New York, New York, U.S. |
May 20, 1906
Died | October 25, 1982 Mineola, New York, U.S. |
(aged 76)
Alma mater |
Yale University Columbia University Law School |
Occupation | Polo player, racehorse owner/breeder |
Spouse(s) |
Helena Woolworth McCann (m. 1934; div. 1944) Lucy Douglas Cochrane (m. 1947) |
Children | 4, including Cornelia Guest |
Parent(s) | Frederick E. Guest Amy Phipps |
Relatives |
Raymond R. Guest (brother) Diana Guest Manning (sister) Ivor Guest (grandfather) Henry Phipps, Jr. (grandfather) |
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (May 20, 1906 – October 25, 1982), was an Anglo-American polo champion and a member of the Guest family of Britain.
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was born on May 20, 1906, to Frederick Guest (1875–1937), a British politician, and Amy Phipps. His mother was the daughter of Henry Phipps, Jr., an American businessman and philanthropist. His paternal grandfather was Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835–1914), a Welsh industrialist. His great-grandfather was John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, making him a second cousin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
His brother, Raymond R. Guest (1907–1991), was the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 to 1968, who married three times.
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. In 1919, his parents entered into a separation agreement and his mother received custody of him, thereafter living in the United States. He graduated from Yale University in 1927 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1942.
After graduating from Columbia University Law School, he 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, were each paid $1 a year for his work.