Baron Haden-Guest

Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 2 February 1950 for the Labour Party politician Leslie Haden-Guest. He had previously represented Southwark North and Islington North in the House of Commons. His third son, the fourth Baron (who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974), was a United Nations official for many years.

The coat of arms of the Barons Haden-Guest, based on the blazon in Burke's Peerage - Peerage 200918

The title has been held by his son Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Christopher Guest is a film director, writer, actor and musician, married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest.

Barons Haden-Guest (1950)

Anthony Haden-Guest, the current baron's older half-brother, was born out of wedlock, and hence is not in the line of succession. As the current baron's children are adopted (and thus likewise not in the line of succession), the heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest (born 1951). There are no more heirs to the barony.

Male-line family tree
Male-line family tree, Barons Haden-Guest
Leslie Haden-Guest
1st Baron Haden-Guest
1877–1960
Stephen Haden-Guest
2nd Baron Haden-Guest
1902–1974		Richard Haden-Guest
3rd Baron Haden-Guest
1904–1987		David Haden-Guest
1911–1938		Peter Haden-Guest
4th Baron Haden-Guest
1913–1996
Brian Haden-Guest
1935–1951		Christopher Haden-Guest
5th Baron Haden-Guest
born 1948		Hon.
Nicholas Haden-Guest
born 1951

Coat of arms

ARMS: Sable two flaunches or, three Welsh triple harps in fess counter-changed.

CREST: A caladrius displayed sable, beaked, legged and charged on the breast with a sun in splendour or.

SUPPORTERS: Dexter, a leopard Sable semée of roundels Or and grasping in the interior paw a quill Or; Sinister, a leopard Or semée of roundels Sable and grasping in the interior paw a quill Sable.

MOTTO: Non nobis solum nati sumus (Not for ourselves alone do we come into the world).

References
  1. "No. 38830". The London Gazette. 3 February 1950. p. 594.
  • Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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