John Josiah Guest

Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet (2 Fabrairu 1785 - 26 Nuwamba 1852), wanda aka fi sani da John Josiah Guest, masanin injiniya ne na Burtaniya, ɗan kasuwa kuma ɗan siyasa. 

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Guest a ranar 2 ga Fabrairu 1785 a Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales . Shi dan Thomas Guest ne, abokin tarayya a Kamfanin Dowlais Iron Company, da Jemima Revel Phillips . Guest ta yi karatu a makarantar Bridgnorth Grammar School da Monmouth School . 

 Ayyuka 
Bayan ya halarci makaranta, ya koyi sana'ar yin ƙarfe a gidan mahaifinsa a hannun manajan aiki, John Evans. Baƙo ya shahara ne saboda ikonsa na mirgina mashaya na ƙarfe ko yanke motar kwal da kuma kowane ma'aikacin mahaifinsa. Bayan rasuwar mahaifinsa a 1807, Guest ya gaji rabon mahaifinsa na kamfanin kuma ya bunkasa kasuwancin, ya zama mai mallakar ayyukan a 1815. A lokacin mutuwarsa a shekara ta 1852, Kamfanin Dowlais Iron ya zama mafi girma mai samar da ƙarfe a duniya.

An zabi Guest a shekara ta 1825 a matsayin memba na majalisar dokoki na Honiton, Devon, yana riƙe da kujerar har zuwa Babban zaben 1831 a lokacin Rikicin Gyara-gyare. A shekara ta 1832 ya zama Dan majalisa na farko na Merthyr Tydfil a matsayin Whig,  kuma a shekara ta 1837 ya kaddamar da kamfen don a kafa garin. 

A cikin 1838, an kirkiro Guest a matsayin baronet, na Dowlais a cikin County na Glamorgan .  Bayan mutuwarsa a shekara ta 1852, ɗan fari ya gaje Guest, wanda aka ɗaukaka shi zuwa matsayi a 1880 a matsayin Baron Wimborne, na Canford Magna a cikin County na Dorset, a kan shirin Disraeli.

 Taimako 
Ayyukansa na jama'a sun haɗa da makaranta a Dowlais, wanda Sir Charles Barry ya tsara. Baƙo ya kasance Fellow na Royal Society kuma memba na Cibiyar Injiniyoyin Injiniyoyi. Shi ne shugaban farko na Taff Vale Railway . 

Bayan sayen Canford Manor a 1846, Guest ya fara aiwatar da gina sabbin gidaje ga ma'aikata a yankin don inganta yanayin rayuwa. Kodayake an gina na farko bayan mutuwarsa, matarsa, Charlotte Guest, da surukinsa Cornelia Guest sun kula da gina waɗannan 'Lady Wimborne Cottages'.

 Freemasonry 
A watan Agustan 1840, an nada Guest a matsayin Master of Loyal Cambrian Lodge, No. 110 a Merthyr Tydfil . 

 Zuriyarsu 
Daga cikin jikokinsa da yawa sune: Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl na Bessborough, 'yan uwan Granville (1867-1942) da Montague Eliot (1870-1960), waɗanda suka zama 7th da 8th Earls na St Germans, bi da bi. Har ila yau akwai Frances Guest (1869-1957), wanda aka fi sani da Lady Chelmsford, wanda ya auri Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsfords, wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Sarkin Indiya, Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939), wanda ya zama 1st Vis count Wimborne, Christian Henry Charles Guest (1874-1957), memba na Liberal "MP", Frederick "Freddie" Edward Guest (1875-1937), wani Liberal MP, da Oscar Montague Guest (1888-1958), wanda duka biyu Liberal ne, kuma daga baya, Conservative MP.

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