Loel Guinness

Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, OBE (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988)[3] was a British Conservative politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bath (1931–1945), business magnate and philanthropist.

Guinness also financed the purchase of the Calypso, leasing her for one symbolic franc a year[4] to famous oceanic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his movie The Silent World (1956).

[8] The following year, he became one of the first private citizens in England to own an airplane and soon he was a member of the County of London's Auxiliary Air Force squadron.

In 1940 he flew as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, famously buying a petrol station near his aerodrome when his driving was restricted by rationing.

[9][10] Before their divorce, Loel and Joan had a son, Patrick Benjamin Guinness,[11] who was killed in an automobile accident near Rarogne, Switzerland.

[5][25] On 31 December 1988, Guinness died of heart disease at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, United States.