Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest

Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest (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 at Owens College, Manchester and London Hospital.

He served 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 married 1stly in 1898, Edith daughter of Max Low of London by whom he had two sons. He was divorced in 1909 and in 1910 married Muriel Carmel the daughter of Albert Goldsmid by which he had two sons and a daughter. He married thirdly in 1944 Dr. Edith Edgar Macqueen, daughter of George Macqueen.

References

• Who was Who
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |origdate= (help)