Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest

Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest MC (10 March 1877, Oldham – 20 August 1960) was a British author, journalist, doctor and Labour Party politician.

The son of Alexander Haden Guest, a physician and surgeon of Manchester who was an active worker for the left, he was educated first at William Hulme's Grammar School, then studied medicine at Owens College, Manchester and the London Hospital.

He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Boer War, World War I and World War II, winning a Military Cross. He was the founder of the Anglo-French Committee of the Red Cross and the Order of St. John. He was a member of the London County Council for Woolwich (East), 1919-1922. He was a Labour MP for Southwark North, 1923-1927 and for Islington North, 1937-1950 and founded the Labour Party Commonwealth Group. He was created a peer in 1950 and was a Lord-in-Waiting to the King, February-October 1951 and thereafter an Assistant Opposition Whip in the House of Lords. He was the first Jew to stand for Parliament as a Labour candidate. ["the first Jewish Labour candidate, Captain Haden-Guest": "Jewish Chronicle" March 11 1966, page 8]

In 1898, he married Edith, daughter of Max Low of London, by whom he had two sons, Stephen and Richard. He was divorced in 1909 and in 1910 married Muriel Carmel the daughter of Albert Goldsmid by whom he had two sons, David (who was killed in the Spanish Civil War) and Peter and a daughter, Angela. His third marriage was in 1944 to Dr. Edith Edgar Macqueen, daughter of George Macqueen. He was the grandfather of actor Christopher Guest.

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DATE OF BIRTH=1877-03-10
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DATE OF DEATH=1960-08-20
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