Guinness family

For other uses, see Guinness (disambiguation).

The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic Anglo-Irish Protestant family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. They are particularly known among the general public for producing the dry stout, Guinness Beer, which they still own to this day. The founder of the dynasty, Arthur Guinness, is believed to have had partly McCartan origins. From the late 18th century, they prospered in Dublin and then in Britain.

Four members of the family in succession held the UK Parliament constituency of Southend, which became popularly known as "Guinness-on-Sea".

The "banking line" Guinnesses 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.

Prominent members

Brewing line

• Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), founder of the Guinness brewery in 1759
• The Second Arthur Guinness (1768–1855)
• Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868)
• Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915), created Baron Ardilaun in 1880
• Kenelm Lee Guinness (1887–1937), racing driver and spark plug manufacturer

Earls of Iveagh

• Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927)
• Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh (1874–1967)
• Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh (1937–1992)
• Arthur Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh (Ned Iveagh; born 1969)
• Gwendolen, Countess of Iveagh (1881–1966)
• Lady Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996)
• Garech Browne (born 1939)
• Paul Channon (1935–2007)
• The 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (Sheridan Dufferin; 1938–1988)

Lords Moyne

• Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880–1944)
• Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (1905–1992)
• Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930)
• Desmond Guinness (born 1931)
• Patrick Guinness (born 1958)
• The 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 1954)
• Daphne Guinness (born 1967)
• Jasmine Guinness (born 1976)
• Kieran Arthur Guinness (born 1949)
• Erskine Guinness, (born 1953)
• Malachy Guinness (born 1986)
• Henry James Guinness (born 1990)

Banking line

• Robert Rundell Guinness (1789–1857), founder of Guinness Mahon
• Richard Samuel Guinness (1797-1857), MP
• Mary Catherine Ferguson (1823–1905)
• Benjamin Solomon Guinness (1868–1947)
• Henry Guinness (1858–1945)
• Judy Guinness (1910-52)
• Humphrey Patrick Guinness (1902–1986)
• Thomas "Loel" Guinness (1906–1988)
• Meraud Guinness (1904–1993)
• Tanis Guinness (1908–1993)
• Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965)
• William Loel Seymour Guinness (born 1939)
• Agnes Elizabeth Lynn Guinness (born 1942)
• Sheridan William Guinness (born 1972)
• Thomas Seymour Guinness (born 1973)
• Chloë Belinda Guinness (born 1976)
• Serena Belinda (Lindy) Rosemary Guinness (born 1941)
• Gloria Guinness (1912–1980)
• Dolores Guinness (1936–2012)
• Sabrina Guinness (born 1955)
• Loel Patrick Guinness (born 1957)
• Victoria Niarchos (born 1960)
• Hugo Guinness (1959- )

Religious and political lines

• Henry Grattan Guinness (1835–1910), Protestant missionary
• Fanny Emma Grattan Guinness (nee Fitzgerald), 1831-1898, wife to Henry Grattan Guinness 1860-1898
• Grace Alexandra R Guinness (nee Hurditch) (1877-1967), 2nd wife to Henry Grattan Guinness 1903-his death
  • Gershom Whitfield Guinness (1869—1927), missionary in China
  • Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor (1865–1949), missionary in China and a writer
  • Lucy Evangeline Guinness (Kumm)
  • Henrietta Matilda Guinness
  • Phoebe Canfield Guinness
  • Agnes Octavia West Guinness
  • John Christopher Guinness
  • Karis Geraldine Guinness (nee MacKenzie), wife to John Christopher Guinness
  • Harry Grattan Guinness (1861–1915), Protestant missionary and first leader of Regions Beyond Missionary Union
  • Paul Ambrose Grattan Guinness (1908-1986)
  • Jean Guinness (nee Elliott) wife to Paul Ambrose Grattan Guinness
• Sir Arthur Guinness (1846–1913), Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• Ivor Grattan-Guinness
• The 5th Baron Plunket (1864–1920)
• Os Guinness (born 1941)
• Frank V. Guinness, NZ Politician
• Howard Wyndham Guinness, (1903–1979)

Possible connection

While it has been speculated that the actor Sir Alec Guinness (1914–2000) was descended from the Guinness brewing family, his true father has not been identified.

See also

• Earl of Iveagh (created 1919)
• Baron Moyne (created 1932)
• 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

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)
• 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

External links

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