Loel Guinness

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Group Capt. Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness OBE (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988), a Member of Parliament, was most well-known for his first marriage to the Honourable Joan Yarde-Buller, a daughter of the third Lord Churston, who left him for Prince Aly Khan, the eldest son of the Aga Khan III. (Aly later married the actress Rita Hayworth; Princess Joan Aly Khan married thirdly the second Viscount Camrose and died as the Dowager Viscountess Camrose or Joan, Viscountess Camrose). By Joan, he had a son Patrick who would later marry his step-sister.

Guinness also financed the purchase of the Calypso for the famous oceanic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Raised in the United States and England, Loel Guinness was a son of Benjamin Solomon Guinness, a lawyer, from whom he inherited a fortune. He was descended from Samuel Guinness, a Dublin goldsmith (1727-1795), the younger brother of the Guinness brewery's founder Arthur Guinness.

Loel's second wife was Lady Isabel Manners, second daughter of the ninth Duke of Rutland, by whom he had a son, William Loel Seymour Guinness, and a daughter, Serena Belinda ("Lindy"), who married the fourth and last Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, himself the son of Maureen Guinness, one of the famous Guinness Girls. (She was middle daughter of the Hon. Ernest Guinness, himself second son of the first Earl of Iveagh, himself third and youngest son of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, Bt.).

Loel's third wife was the socialite Gloria Rubio y Alatorre. Her daughter, Freiien (Baroness) Dolores von Fürstenberg-Herdringen, married Patrick Benjamin Guinness, son of Loel and his first wife Joan Yarde-Buller (and thus a half-brother to the present Aga Khan IV). They had issue, one son, Loel Patrick, and two daughters, Maria Alexandra (married Foulques, Count de Quatrebarbes) and Victoria Christina (who married Philip Niarchos, son of late Greek billionaire Stavros Niarchos).

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles William Baillie-Hamilton	Member of Parliament for Bath 1931–1945	Succeeded by Sir James Pitman