Baron Haden-Guest

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The coat of arms of the Barons Haden-Guest, based on the blazon in Burke's Peerage – Peerage 200918

Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> 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 fourth son, the fourth Baron (who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974), was a United Nations official for many years.

The title is held by his son, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Known professionally as Christopher Guest, he is a film director, writer, actor and musician. He is married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Barons Haden-Guest (1950)

• Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest (1877–1960)
• Stephen Haden Haden-Guest, 2nd Baron Haden-Guest (1902–1974)
• Richard Haden Haden-Guest, 3rd Baron Haden-Guest (1904–1987)
• Peter Albert Michael Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (1913–1996)
• Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born 1948)

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 has no sons, the heir presumptive is his brother, Nicholas Haden-Guest (born 1951). Nicholas Haden-Guest fathers two daughters.Template:Citation needed

Coat of arms

ARMS: Sable two flaunches or, three Welsh triple harps in fess counter-changed.Template:Citation needed

CREST: A caladrius displayed sable, beaked, legged and charged on the breast with a sun in splendour or.

SUPPORTERS: Dexter, a leopard Sable semée of roundels Or and grasping in the interior paw a quill Or; Sinister, a leopard Or semée of roundels Sable and grasping in the interior paw a quill Sable.

MOTTO: Non nobis solum nati sumus (Not for ourselves alone do we come into the world).

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