Ivor Forbes Guest

Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD worked professionally as a lawyer, but is best known as a historian for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years and has been a VicePresident since 1993 and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust. In 1997 he was made a Doctor of the University by the University of Surrey, its highest honorary doctorate.

Ivor Guest was born onApril 1920 in Chislehurst, Kent, England. Guests father, Cecil Marmaduke Guest served as a lieutenant in the Transvaal Scottish in the First World War and was later made up to captain, serving with the South African Scottish in France, where he was gassed. Declared unfit for further service he remained in England. He married Ivors mother, Christian ForbesTweedie onJuly 1918.

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