1. Freddie Guest was Secretary of State for Air between 1921 and 1922.
23 Facts About Freddie Guest
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Freddie Guest won the bronze medal with the British polo team at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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Frederick Edward Freddie Guest was born in London, the third son of Ivor Freddie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne and Lady Cornelia Spencer-Churchill.
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The Freddie Guest family had made its fortune in the iron and steel industry during the 18th and 19th centuries and had married into the aristocracy.
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Freddie Guest's mother was the eldest daughter of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough.
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Freddie Guest was a first cousin of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, and Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe, as well as a nephew of Conservative politician Lord Randolph Churchill, George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, and Lady Anne Emily Spencer Churchill, who was married to the 7th Duke of Roxburghe.
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Freddie Guest was commissioned as second-lieutenant in the Infantry militia, East Surrey Regiment, and promoted to lieutenant on 7 April 1894.
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Freddie Guest was sent to Egypt in 1899, and in late November that year was part of a Camel Corps during the operations leading to the defeat of the Khalifa.
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Freddie Guest served in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 1901, returning home in late June 1902, following the end of hostilities.
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Freddie Guest was decorated for bravery, and rose to captain before retiring from active duty in 1906.
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In 1906 Freddie Guest became private secretary to Churchill, by then a junior minister in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal government.
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Freddie Guest attempted three times to enter the House of Commons before winning the vote in the East Dorset seat in the January 1910 general election.
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Freddie Guest performed confidential missions for French, liaising with the War Office and with political leaders.
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In 1916 Freddie Guest served in the East African theatre of war and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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Freddie Guest was appointed to the Privy Council in the 1920 New Year Honours, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable", and in 1921 was promoted to Secretary of State for Air, a post he held until the Coalition fell from power in October 1922.
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Freddie Guest competed for Great Britain in polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Freddie Guest played alongside Frederick W Barrett, Dennis Bingham and Kinnear Wise.
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Freddie Guest can be found among the winners of the Roehampton Trophy.
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Freddie Guest would lend horses to the English polo team for the International Polo Cup matches.
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On 28 June 1905, Freddie Guest married Amy Phipps, daughter of American industrialist Henry Phipps, at St George's, Hanover Square in London.
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Freddie Guest played polo, was a big-game hunter in East Africa, and was a celebrated man-about-town in London and New York City society.
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Freddie Guest was a member of the River and Links Clubs of New York and the Piping Rock Club in Long Island.
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Freddie Guest was a friend of the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII.