High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO Bar PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944) was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi. The assassination of Lord Moyne sent shock waves through Palestine and the rest of the world.