Baron Haden-Guest


Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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, 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.

Barons Haden-Guest (1950)

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. Nicholas Haden-Guest fathers two daughters.

Coat of arms

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