Tatiana Emily Guinness

Christopher married Alicia Mary Cubitt [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Arrival: 2 Oct 1948, Liverpool, Lancashire
• Military Service: 1960

Notes:

Eldest son of Captain Edward Douglas Guinness, CBE, RNR (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry Ireland'). Educated at Eton 1945-50.

National Service 1951-53. Midshipman R.N.V.R. Director of: S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd., Harris & Sheldon Group Ltd., Youghal Carpets Holdings Ltd. Chairman Wessex Area Conservative Party

1975-78; Treasurer from 1978. Knight Bachelor June 1981.



Sir Howard Christian Sheldon Guinness, Kt, VRD 1932-2019

Sir Howard Guinness, who died 23 June, 2019, aged 87, was a member of the merchant banking branch of the wealthy brewing dynasty.

He was born 3 June, 1932, son of Edward Douglas Guinness, CBE, by his wife the former Martha Sheldon; married 1958, Evadne Jane Gibbs, by whom he had 2 sons, Christopher and Dominic, and and 1 daughter, Annabel.

Sie Howard was with Guinness Mahon and Co, 1953-55; S.G. Warburg & Co Ltd, 1955-85; Director, Harris & Sheldon Group Ltd 1960-81; Director and Deputy Chairman, Youghal Carpets [Holdings] Ltd, 1972-80; Director, Quality Milk Producers Ltd, 1988-2000; Riyad Bank Europe, 1993-99; Chairman North Hampshire Conservative Association, 1971-74; Member of the Council of the English Guernsey Cattle Soc, 1963-72, 1996-99; Chairman 1975-78, and Treasurer, 1978-81, Wessex Area Conservative Association.

Guinness was knighted in 1981.

The funeral takes place at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Glanville Wootton, near Sherborne, Dorset, 22 July, 2019.

Howard married Evadne Jane Gibbs on 17 Nov 1958. Evadne (daughter of Captain Evan Llewellyn Gibbs and Monica Elizabeth Wyldbore-Smith) was born on 17 May 1938 in Chelsea, London; died on 7 Jun 2020. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks
• Education: 1950 - 1954, Downham, Hatfield Heath, Hertfordshire

Notes:

Baptised at The Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks. Educated at Downham, Hatfield Heath, 1950-54.

Edward married Martha Letière Sheldon on 15 Sep 1931 in London. Martha was born on 18 Jun 1918; died in Apr 2004 in London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Baptised 21 July 1906 at St. George's, Clyst St. George. Educated at Eton College 1919/24 and Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1925-26. Killed in Action near Dunkirk, 1st June 1940.

2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards 1926; Lieut. 1929, Capt. 1940. Served with the Shanghai Defence Force 1927-28. Resigned from the Army, February 1930 and joined British Shareholders' Trust in the City of London, but remained on the Reserve until re-called to serve in the Second World War. Member of the Stock Exchange, and partner in David A. Sevan, Stockbrokers, from 1933-39. He was killed on June 1st 1940 while commanding No. 1 Company, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, at Hondeschoote, six miles behind Dunkirk while forming the rear guard of the B.E.F. He was buried by the villagers and afterwards buried by the War Graves Commission in Warhem Cemetery near Dunkirk. He is mentioned in the following books: "Fight Another Day" by J. M. Langley, published by Collins, 1974;
"No Dishonourable Name" by D. C. Quilter, published by Clowes, 1947; "The Coldstream Guards 1920-1946" by Michael Howard and John Sparrow, pub. by The Oxford University Press, 1951.

Portrait as a child in pastel by H. M. Heaton in possession of grandson Patrick Gibbs.

Died:
Killed in Action

Evan married Monica Elizabeth Wyldbore-Smith on 28 Apr 1930 in Westminster, London. Monica (daughter of Sir Edmund Charles Wyldbore-Smith and Evadne Maude Kellett) was born on 29 Sep 1900 in Lonsdale, Kyle, Wexforth; died on 8 Jul 1973 in Winchester, Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Younger daughter of Sir Edmund Wyldbore-Smith, Knt. great-grandson of Sir John Wyldbore-Smith, Baronet), by Evadne Maude, daughter of John Talbot Kellett of Great Glonard, County Wexford. Baptised October 1900 at Kyle.

Married 2ndly 24 October 1957, Lt. Col. Walter Pearce-Serocold, DSO, TD, younger son of Colonel Oswald Pearce-Serocold, CMG, DL, JP of Taplow Hill, Bucks (see Burke's 'Landed Gentry').