Baron Haden-Guest


Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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, was a United Nations official for many years.
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, the heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest. There are no more heirs to the barony.

Male-line family tree

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 or roundels and grasping in the interior paw a quill or; Sinister, a leopard or semée sable roundels and grasping in the interior paw a quill sable.
MOTTO: Non nobis solum nati sumus.