Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet
English soldier, landowner, and magistrate
About Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet
Lived 1888 – 1970 (aged 81). Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet was a British military officer.
Sir Anselm William Edward Guise, 6th Baronet (18 September 1888 – 12 September 1970) was an English soldier, landowner, and magistrate, of Elmore Court, Gloucester.
He was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1926.
Life Guise was the son of Sir William Francis George Guise, 5th Baronet, by his marriage to Ada Caroline Coope, and was educated at Eton. During the First World War, he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Yeomanry and rose to the rank of captain.
On 17 January 1920, he succeeded his father in the Guise baronetcy, created for an ancestor in 1783. which in 1262 had been granted to their ancestor Anselm de Gyse by John of Burgh, a son of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, after Anselm had married a cousin of Burgh's. Within a few months of inheriting the estate, Guise sold much of it, while keeping Elmore Court and a home farm, and also Lassington Wood, which he soon gave to Gloucester County Borough Council, to celebrate the Guise family's long association with the city.
In 1922 Guise was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire, and in 1926 was “pricked” (appointed) as High Sheriff of the county.
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English soldier, landowner, and magistrate
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Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet was born on 18 September 1888.
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Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet died on 12 September 1970.
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Sir Anselm Guise, 6th Baronet was a military officer.
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