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Name: GUEST, Winston Frederick Churchill 'Wolfie'
Nee: son of Frederick Edward Guest
Birth Date: 20 May 1906 Wandsworth, London
Death Date: 25 Oct 1982 New York
Profession: Well known polo player; had a string of ponies to ride down buffalo
Married: 1. 1934 Helena Woolworth McCann b. 23.3.1913 Manhattan, d. 14.5.1965 San Francisco (div. 1944); 2. In Havana, Cuba 8 Mar 1947 Lucy Douglas Cochrane 'CZ' b. 19 Feb 1920 Hamilton, Mass., d. 8 Nov 2003 Nassau, New York
Children: Winston Alexander (1936); Frederick Edward (1938); Alexander Michael Douglas Cochrane (1954); Cornelia Cochrane (1963)
Book Reference: Rundgren, Debrett, Kingsley-Heath, Burke, Telegraph, Chandler
War Service: Capt. US marines
General Information:
Kingsley-Heath - Elder brother of Raymond. He hunted elephant in 1938 in the eastern Tsavo area of Kenya and wounded a huge elephant carrying ivory of 196 pounds and 198 pounds.
Telegraph - 11 Nov 2003 - Obituary of CZ Guest - …….. Guest, a divorcé 14 years her senior, fulfilled the Hemingway ideals of possessing both masculinity and money in abundance, and indeed the writer was best man at the wedding, which took place in Havana. A 10-goal handicap polo player, Guest was a grandson of the 1st Lord Wimborne and a great-grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His maternal grandfather, Henry Phipps, had been Andrew Carnegie's partner in Carnegie Steel, and the family lived at Templeton, a neo-Georgian mansion originally built for the Du Ponts at Old Westbury, on Long Island's North Shore, home to other American plutocrats such as the Guggenheims and the Whitneys. Following the death of Winston's father, the Guests moved into Templeton (which was later used as one of the settings for the Dudley Moore film 'Arthur') in the late 1950s.
Debrett - Capt. USA Marines