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He was the third son of the brewer and philanthropist Edward Cecil Guinness, later the First Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927), and his wife, Adelaide Maria Guinness (1844-1916). He was married to Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine (1883-1939), daughter of the Fourteenth Earl of Buchan. They had two sons and one daughter. Guinness\u2019s commitment to public service and wide variety of interests led him to pursue a life dominated by politics and travel.\n\nLord Moyne was educated at Eton where he rowed for three years in the eight and became captain of boats. He was also president of the Eton Society and under him the society transformed to admit not only athletic representatives but academic ones as well and its debates were revived. \\Also while at Eton, he acquired an interest in biology. However, instead of studying this subject at Oxford, as he had intended, he volunteered for military service in the Second South African War.\n\nDuring the Second South African War he volunteered with the Suffolk yeomanry (Loyal Suffolk hussars). He was wounded, mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the queen\u2019s medal with four clasps. His military career was also revived during the First World War when he again served with the Suffolk yeomanry (this time as major) and with the 10th battalion of the London Regiment. He was involved in campaigns in Gallipoli and Egypt and retired from military life as lieutenant-colonel having been three times mentioned in dispatches and was appointed DSO in 1917 with bar in 1918.\nSee historical collectors file for rest of text\n\nhistorical collectors file;The Times; 7 November 1944; Lord Moyne\u2019s obituary:\nLord Moyne Resident Minister in the Middle East\n\nLord Moyne, Resident Minister in the Middle East, whose assassination in Cairo is announced on another page, had a long and distinguished record as a member of Parliament, Minister, and servant of the State.\n\nAs Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Agriculture under Mr. Baldwin, and again as Colonial Secretary under Mr. Churchill, he proved himself a sound and highly competent member of an administration. When a young man he served in the South African War, and in the 1914-1918 war he earned considerable distinction. As Walter Guinness he sat in the House of Commons for nearly 25 years, but then retired from active politics though not from public service. In this war, however, Mr. Churchill summoned him back and in the several offices he filled he served with characteristic earnestness and devotion to duty. He was also known to the scientific world as an extensive traveller and a yachtsman who had the wealth and made the time to add to human knowledge by exploring remote lands and seas. His life was indeed governed by serious purposes, and his very real abilities were always at his country\u2019s call.\nsee historical collectors file for rest of text" } ], "occupation": "politician and traveller", "projects": [ "CollectionsOnline02" ], "gender": { "value": "M" }, "admin": { "processed": 1729028718679, "sequence": 7339037, "uid": "hmc-agent-2226", "added": 1663962061627, "stream": "collections-online", "id": "agent-2226", "source": "hmc", "uuid": "e99be0c0-0891-3959-b3aa-d4b97f8c3429" }, "description": [ { "type": "biography", "value": "Walter Edward Guinness, first Baron Moyne (1880 \u2013 1944), was born in Dublin on 29 March 1880. He was the third son of the brewer and philanthropist Edward Cecil Guinness, later the first earl of Iveagh (1847 \u2013 1927), and his wife, Adelaide Maria Guinness (1844 \u2013 1916). He was educated at Eton College where he was a keen rower and captain of the boats. At Eton he developed an interest in biology which he intended to pursue at Oxford. Instead he volunteered for service in the South African War with the Suffolk yeomanry (Loyal Suffolk Hussars). He was wounded, mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the queen's medal with four clasps.\n\nOn 24 June 1903 he married Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine (1883 \u2013 1939), daughter of the fourteenth earl of Buchan. They had two sons and one daughter. \n\nIn the early 1890s his father bought a famous sporting estate at Elveden in Suffolk. Walter Guinness would later stand as Conservative candidate for the Stowmarket division. He was defeated at the general election of 1906, but he was returned at a by-election in 1907 for Bury St Edmunds, which he continued to represent until 1931. He was a member of the London county council from 1907 to 1910. \n\nDuring the First World War Guinness served first in Gallipoli and Egypt as a major with the Suffolk yeomanry and afterwards with the 10th battalion of the London regiment. He had been three times mentioned in dispatches, and was appointed DSO in 1917 with bar in 1918. He retired as a lieutenant-colonel. \n\nMoyne led a particularly active political life; he was appointed under-secretary of state for war in 1922, followed by the financial secretaryship of the Treasury in 1923, and again in 1924\u20135 under Winston Churchill as chancellor of the exchequer. He was sworn of the privy council in 1924 and entered the cabinet in November 1925 as minister of agriculture. In 1929 he retired from office, and in January 1932 he was made Baron Moyne of Bury St Edmunds.\n\nMoyne acted as chairman of the departmental committee on housing in 1933, of the royal commission on the University of Durham in 1934, and of the departmental committee on British films in 1936, but he was also financial commissioner to Kenya in 1932 and chairman of the West Indies royal commission in 1938 and 1939.\n\nAway from politics Moyne was a keen traveller; in 1902 he went on the first of many big-game hunting expeditions and before 1914 he travelled extensively on map-making expeditions in Asia Minor. In September 1933, Moyne bought a passenger ferry SS Dieppe from the Southern Railway. She was converted to diesel power and renamed Rosaura. In December 1934, he sailed to the Pacific where he made a collection of objects for museums which he brought back to Britain. He wrote a book about the jopurney: Walkabout; a Journey between the Pacific and Indian oceans (1936) . He wrote about a later journey to Greenland in Atlantic Circle (1938).\n\nOn the outbreak of war in 1939 Moyne acted as chairman of the Polish Relief Fund. The next year Moyne succeeded Lord Lloyd as Secretary of State for the Colonies and Leader of the House of Lords. 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