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|primeminister6 = |predecessor6 = Charles Edward Gilfillan |successor6 = Jacob Letterstedt Smit |constituency6 = Charter |birth_date = |birth_place = Grahamstown, Cape Colony |death_date = |death_place = Salisbury, Rhodesia |restingplace = |restingplacecoordinates = |nationality = British |party = Rhodesia Party (1928–1933) United Party (1933–1946) |spouse = Lady Edie Guest |parents = Herbert Melville Guest |relations = Ivor Forbes Guest (nephew) Melville Guest (grandson) |children = |residence = Salisbury, Rhodesia |alma_mater = St Andrew's College, Grahamstown |occupation = |profession = politician, soldier, lawyer |religion = |signature = |website = |footnotes = |nickname = |allegiance = |branch = |serviceyears = 1899–1919 |rank = Lieutenant-Colonel |unit = |commands = |battles = |awards = |military_blank1 = |military_data1 = |military_blank2 = |military_data2 = |military_blank3 = |military_data3 = |military_blank4 = |military_data4 = |military_blank5 = |military_data5 = }} Sir Ernest Lucas Guest (20 August 1882 – 20 September 1972) was a Rhodesian politician, lawyer and soldier. He held senior ministerial positions in the government, most notably as Minister for Air during the Second World War. Guest was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony. His grandfather had moved the family there, leaving Kidderminster, England, where it had been in the printing business for three generations. He saw active service in the Second Boer War, enlisting despite being underage, and again in the First World War, when he was injured in France. His legal career began while back in Southern Rhodesia between those two wars. He won a case against Sir Charles Coghlan, at the time Premier of Southern Rhodesia, and Coghlan invited him to become a partner in his firm, which became known as Coghlan, Welsh & Guest. On his return from the First World War, Guest took responsibility for the Salisbury practice. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1928 as a member of Coghlan's Rhodesia Party, representing the constituency of Charter, which he held until 1946. He first became a cabinet minister in Godfrey Huggins' government, appointed Minister of Mines and Public Works in June 1938. During the Second World War, Guest was Minister for Air and administered the Rhodesia Air Training Group. After the war he was also Minister of Defence, Minister of Finance and Leader of the House. At the 1946 elections he stood for Salisbury Gardens and held the seat until his retirement from office in 1948. He married Edith May Jones and had two daughters and twin sons, both of whom were killed in action during the Second World War. At his death, both the High Court and Parliament paid public tributes to him. His continuing legacy is most evident in the Kariba Dam, a project that went ahead with his active support. == Early life == Ernest Lucas Guest was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony (in modern South Africa's Eastern Cape province) on 20 August 1882. Guest's grandfather had moved the family to South Africa in 1861 from Kidderminster, England, where they had been involved in the printing business for three generations. His grandfather was appointed manager of the ''Frontier Times'', printed and published in Grahamstown. The family resided there until 1889 when Ernest's father, Herbert Melville Guest,〔 moved them to Klerksdorp, Transvaal, after buying the local newspaper and printing business. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Lucas Guest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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