Raymond R. Guest

Raymond Richard Guest was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and polo player, born in Manhattan on 25 November 1907 to the British cabinet minister Frederick Guest and his American wife Amy Phipps. A Yale graduate of 1931, he served in the United States Navy in the Second World War, sat in the Senate of Virginia from 1947 to 1953 and was United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1965 to 1968. As a racehorse owner he is one of only four owners to win both the Epsom Derby and the Grand National. His brother Winston Guest was also a polo player. Raymond Guest twice won the U.S. Open as part of the Templeton team and was posthumously inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in 2006. He died on 31 December 1991.