Oscar Guest

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Oscar Montague Guest (1888–1958) was a British politician who started as a Liberal and later became a Conservative MP. He served in Parliament twice.

Family background:
He was the youngest of nine children of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, and Lady Cornelia Spencer-Churchill (niece of the Duke of Marlborough and aunt of Winston Churchill). The Guest family were wealthy industrialists; their business included Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, now known as GKN. Three of Oscar’s brothers—Henry, Ivor and Freddie—were MPs, as was their grandfather John Guest.

He married Kathleen Susan Paterson in 1924, and they had four children: Bertie, Patrick, Cornelia, and Revel.

Political career:
He was elected in 1918 as a Liberal MP for Loughborough in Leicestershire, and stood down in 1922. He returned to Parliament in 1935 as a Conservative MP for Camberwell North West in South London. In the 1945 election, he did not stand in Camberwell; instead he ran in Breconshire and Radnorshire in Wales, where his nephew Ivor had been MP in the 1930s. He was defeated there, by a much larger margin than Labour’s majority in Camberwell North West.