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[[File:Restored gates at Elmore Court - geograph.org.uk - 790908.jpg|thumb|200px|Elmore Court, seen through<br>its main gates]]
'''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. <ref>''[[The London Gazette]]'', Issue 33143, 19 March 1926, p. 2012</ref>
==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 College|Eton]]. During the [[World War I|First World War]], he was commissioned into the [[Gloucestershire Yeomanry]] and rose to the rank of Captain.<ref name=BP> ''Burke’s Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), p. 1703</ref>
On 17 January 1920, he succeeded his father in the [[Guise baronets|Guise baronetcy]], created for an ancestor in 1783.<ref name=BP/> His father left him an estate of which had been granted to their ancestor Anselm de Gyse by an [[Earl of Kent]] in 1274.<ref>''Country Life'' (1920), p. 447</ref><ref name=garden>''The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects'' (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1921), p. 13; “Churcham: Introduction” in ''Victoria County History of Gloucestershire'', vol. 10, [https://ift.tt/2ZA1yY8 pp. 11–17]</ref> 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.<ref name=garden/>
Guise also inherited an art collection, and in 1921 he sold [[Francesco Botticini]]‘s painting “Madonna Adoring the Christ Child”, which had belonged to his mother’s family, the Coopes.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3gdd2Xc Title: Madonna Adoring the Christ Child] at mappingpaintings.org, accessed 25 May 2020</ref>
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.<ref name=BP/>
On 23 January 1924, Guise married Nina Margaret Sophie Grant, a daughter of [[Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet|Sir James Augustus Grant, first (and last) Baronet]], and they had three children, Philippa Margaret (born 1926), John Grant (1927–2007), later 7th Baronet, and Christopher James Guise (born 1930), later 8th Baronet.<ref name=BP/>
==Notes==
==External links==
*[https://ift.tt/2ZAfPEa Captain Anselm William Edward GUISE. Gloucestershire Yeomanry] at nationalarchives.gov.uk
[[Category:1888 births]]
[[Category:1970 deaths]]
[[Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
'''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. <ref>''[[The London Gazette]]'', Issue 33143, 19 March 1926, p. 2012</ref>
==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 College|Eton]]. During the [[World War I|First World War]], he was commissioned into the [[Gloucestershire Yeomanry]] and rose to the rank of Captain.<ref name=BP> ''Burke’s Peerage'', volume 2 (2003), p. 1703</ref>
On 17 January 1920, he succeeded his father in the [[Guise baronets|Guise baronetcy]], created for an ancestor in 1783.<ref name=BP/> His father left him an estate of which had been granted to their ancestor Anselm de Gyse by an [[Earl of Kent]] in 1274.<ref>''Country Life'' (1920), p. 447</ref><ref name=garden>''The Gardeners' Chronicle: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects'' (Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1921), p. 13; “Churcham: Introduction” in ''Victoria County History of Gloucestershire'', vol. 10, [https://ift.tt/2ZA1yY8 pp. 11–17]</ref> 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.<ref name=garden/>
Guise also inherited an art collection, and in 1921 he sold [[Francesco Botticini]]‘s painting “Madonna Adoring the Christ Child”, which had belonged to his mother’s family, the Coopes.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3gdd2Xc Title: Madonna Adoring the Christ Child] at mappingpaintings.org, accessed 25 May 2020</ref>
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.<ref name=BP/>
On 23 January 1924, Guise married Nina Margaret Sophie Grant, a daughter of [[Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet|Sir James Augustus Grant, first (and last) Baronet]], and they had three children, Philippa Margaret (born 1926), John Grant (1927–2007), later 7th Baronet, and Christopher James Guise (born 1930), later 8th Baronet.<ref name=BP/>
==Notes==
==External links==
*[https://ift.tt/2ZAfPEa Captain Anselm William Edward GUISE. Gloucestershire Yeomanry] at nationalarchives.gov.uk
[[Category:1888 births]]
[[Category:1970 deaths]]
[[Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain]]
[[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]
[[Category:High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire]]
[[Category:People educated at Eton College]]
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