Guinness family

The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout Guinness Beer. The founder of the dynasty, Arthur Guinness, claimed descent from the Viscounts Magennis of Iveagh. Beginning in the late 18th century, they became a prominent part of what is known in Ireland as the Protestant Ascendancy.

The "banking line" Guinness's all descend from Arthur's brother Samuel (1727–1795) who set up as a goldbeater in Dublin in 1750; his son Richard (1755–1830), a Dublin barrister; and Richard's son Robert Rundell Guinness who founded Guinness Mahon in 1836.

The current head of the family is the Earl of Iveagh. Another prominent branch, descended from the 1st Earl of Iveagh, is headed by Lord Moyne.

Prominent members

See also

• Earl of Iveagh (created 1919)
• Baron Moyne (created 1932)
• Baron Ardilaun (created 1880)
• Guinness baronets
• Kenwood House
• Guinness Trust
• Lion's Gate Bridge
• St. James's Gate Brewery
• Guinness share-trading fraud
• Families in the Oireachtas
• Iveagh Trust
• Iveagh Gardens
• Iveagh House
• Farmleigh

Notes

Further reading

• Martelli, G. Man of his Time (London 1957)
• Lynch P. & Vaizey J. Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy, 1759–1876 (Cambridge 1960)
• Mullally, Frederic. The Silver Salver: The Story of the Guinness Family (Granada, 1981)
• Aalen, F. H. A. The Iveagh Trust The first hundred years 1890–1990 (Dublin 1990)
• Guinness, J. Requiem for a Family Business (Macmillan 1997)
• S. Dennison and O.MacDonagh, Guinness 1886–1939 From incorporation to the Second World War (Cork University Press 1998)
• Wilson, D. Dark and Light (Weidenfeld, London 1998)
• Bryant, J. Kenwood: The Iveagh Bequest (English Heritage publication 2004)
• Guinness, P. Arthur's Round (Peter Owen, London 2008)
• Joyce, J. The Guinnesses (Poolbeg Press, Dublin 2009)
• Bourke, Edward J. The Guinness Story: The Family, the Business and the Black Stuff (O'Brien Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-84717-145-0
• Smith, R. Guinness Down Under; the famous brew and the family come to Australia and New Zealand (Eyeglass Press, Tauranga 2018). ISBN 978-0-473-40842-8

External links

• www.guinnesspartnership.com/125
• http://www.guinness.com/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080820023015/http://www.guinnesstrust.org.uk/
• Bicentennial essay by Bryan Guinness in The Times 20 November 1959; (reprinted in Eugenics Review, April 1960)

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2. Daphne Guinness
3. Guinness Brewery
4. Alec Guinness
5. Arthur Guinness
6. Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne
7. Catherine Guinness
8. Bunny Guinness
9. Matthew Guinness
10. Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
11. Lulu Guinness
12. Jasmine Guinness
13. Ernest Guinness
14. Sabrina Guinness
15. Oonagh Guinness
16. Gloria Guinness
17. Desmond Guinness
18. Hilton family
19. Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
20. Diana Mosley