Frederick Edward Guest, CBE, DSO (14 June 1875 – 28 April 1937) was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party, 1917–1921.

His sister Frances Charlotte Guest (1865–1957) was married to Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, who served as Viceroy of India.

[3] After apprenticeship in the militia, Guest was on 15 May 1897 appointed an officer in the 1st Life Guards, and promoted to lieutenant in that regiment on 23 November 1898.

[4] He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War from 1901, returning home in late June 1902, following the end of hostilities.

In 1906 Guest became private secretary to Churchill, by then a junior minister in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal government.

Guest attempted three times to enter the House of Commons before winning the vote in the East Dorset seat in the January 1910 general election.

When the First World War began in August 1914, Guest returned to active service as aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France.

[2] Amy was prominent as a women's suffragist, philanthropist and aviation enthusiast and owned valuable property on Long Island.

They had a daughter and two sons who became American citizens: Apart from his political career he was an amateur motor racing driver and aeroplane pilot.

He also played polo, was a big-game hunter in East Africa, and was a celebrated man-about-town in London and New York City society.