Family and Private Life
Guest married Amy (1873–1959), daughter of American industrialist Henry Phipps, in 1905. Apart from his political career he was an amateur motor racing driver and airplane pilot. In 1930 he became deputy master of the Guild of Air Pilots, and master in 1932. He also played polo, was a big-game hunter in East Africa, and was a celebrated man-about-town in London and New York City society. Guest's wife — who was prominent as a women's suffragist, philanthropist and aviation enthusiast — owned valuable property in Long Island. The couple were frequent visitors to the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. They had a daughter, Diana (1909–1994) and two sons who became American citizens: Winston Frederick Churchill Guest (1906–1982), a polo great, and Raymond R. Guest (1907–1991), United States Ambassador to Ireland, 1965–1968. Guest died from cancer in 1937, at the age of 61.
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