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She was married to the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Southend, Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh. In 1927, he ceased to be an MP when he succeeded to his father's earldom. The Countess of Iveagh, as Gwendolen Guinness was now known, won the Southend by-election on 19 November 1927 to replace her husband as MP. She served until her retirement at the 1935 general election.
When she retired in 1935 she was succeeded as MP by her eldest daughter Honor Guinness's husband, Henry "Chips" Channon. Another son-in-law, Alan Lennox-Boyd, was an MP (for Mid Bedfordshire 1931-60), making the first mother- and son-in-law set of MPs.
They had 5 children:
- Richard (b. 15 Oct. 1906).
- Honor Dorothy Mary (b. 1909).
- Arthur (b. 8 May 1912).
- Patricia Florence Susan (b. 3 March 1918).
- Brigid Katherine Rachel (b. 30 July 1920).
