Walter Guinness Country Life Magazine Portrait November 14 1925

Walter Guinness Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, November 14 1925. LVIII No. 1506

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lieut.-Colonel Walter Guinness, M.P., who was appointed to succeed Mr Edward Wood, Viceroy-designate of India, as President of the Board of Agriculture. Colonel Guinness had already distinguished himself, while serving as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, as an able administrator and financier. He was the third son of Lord Iveagh and married, in 1903, Lady Evelyn Stuart Erskine, second daughter of the Earl of Buchan. During the European War, he served on the General Staff and as a battalion commander.

Walter Edward Guinness (1880–1944), later the 1st Baron Moyne, was a prominent Anglo-Irish politician, soldier, and businessman from the famous Guinness brewing family.

• Political Career: He served as MP for Bury St Edmunds from 1907 to 1931. Before becoming Minister of Agriculture, he was Financial Secretary to the Treasury under Winston Churchill.
• Military Service: During World War I, he reached the rank of Brigade Major and was awarded the DSO and Bar for his service in campaigns including Gallipoli and Passchendaele.
• Family: He was the third son of the 1st Earl of Iveagh and married Lady Evelyn Stuart Erskine, daughter of the 14th Earl of Buchan, in 1903.
• Later Life: While serving as British Minister-Resident in the Middle East in 1944, he was assassinated in Cairo by the militant Zionist group Lehi (also known as the Stern Gang). His death had a significant impact on British policy in Mandatory Palestine and the Middle East.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.