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 (who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974), was a United Nations official for many years.

The title is held by his son Christopher Guest, the fifth Baron, who succeeded him in 1996. Christopher Guest is a film director, writer, actor and musician, married to the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who is therefore the current Lady Haden-Guest.

Barons Haden-Guest (1950)

 * Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest (1877–1960)
 * Stephen Haden Haden-Guest, 2nd Baron Haden-Guest (1902–1974)
 * Richard Haden Haden-Guest, 3rd Baron Haden-Guest (1904–1987)
 * Peter Albert Michael Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest (1913–1996)
 * Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born 1948)

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, the Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest (born 1951). There are no more heirs to the barony.

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 (Not for ourselves alone do we come into the world).