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The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic
Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
 Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 Protestant
Protestantism

Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
 family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics and diplomacy. They are particularly known for their eponymous family firm, Guinness
Guinness

Guinness is a popular dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness' first brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare but it then moved to its present home at St....
.

Four members of the family in succession held the UK Parliament constituency of Southend
Southend (UK Parliament constituency)

Southend was a United Kingdom constituencies centred on the town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
, which became popularly known as "Guinness-on-Sea".








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The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic
Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
 Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 Protestant
Protestantism

Protestantism is a movement within Christianity that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the three principal traditions of Christianity, together with Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy....
 family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics and diplomacy. They are particularly known for their eponymous family firm, Guinness
Guinness

Guinness is a popular dry stout that originated in Arthur Guinness' first brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare but it then moved to its present home at St....
.

Four members of the family in succession held the UK Parliament constituency of Southend
Southend (UK Parliament constituency)

Southend was a United Kingdom constituencies centred on the town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
, which became popularly known as "Guinness-on-Sea".

Prominent members

  • Arthur Guinness
    Arthur Guinness

    Arthur Guinness was an Irish people brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and Guinness family....
     (1725-1803), Founder of the Guinness brewery
  • Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
    Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun

    File:Lord Ardilaun Sir Arthur Edward Guinness .jpgArthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun was an Irish ethnicity businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's Green to the people of Dublin....
     (1840-1915), created Baron Ardilaun in 1880
  • Arthur Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh
    Arthur Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh

    Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, Deputy Lieutenant , is a member of the Guinness family. He is the son of Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh and Miranda Daphne Jane Smiley....
     (born 1969)
  • Benjamin Guinness
    Benjamin Guinness

    Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet was an Ireland brewer and philanthropist....
     (1798-1868)
  • Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh
    Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh

    Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, , known as Benjamin was the son of Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden and Elizabeth Cecilia Hare....
     (1937-1992)
  • Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
    Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

    Bryan Walter Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , was an heir to part of the Guinness family brewing fortune, lawyer, poet and novelist. He married Diana Mitford, but later divorced her....
     (1905-1992)
  • Caroline Guinness (born 1954)
  • Daphne Guinness
    Daphne Guinness

    Daphne Suzannah Diana Joan Guinness is a socialite of Ireland descent and an heiress of the Guinness family.Daphne Guinness is the daughter of Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne and his second wife Suzanne Lisney , a French beauty....
     (born 1967)
  • Desmond Guinness
    Desmond Guinness

    Desmond Guinness is an Irish author on Georgian art and architecture and a conservationist.Born on 8 September 1931, he was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Diana Mitford....
     (born 1931)
  • Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
    Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

    Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, Order of St Patrick, GCVO, Royal Society was an Ireland philanthropist and businessman....
     (1847-1927)
  • Gloria Guinness
    Gloria Guinness

    Gloria Guinness was a Mexican-born socialite and writer who was a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar from 1963 until 1971. She also was a member of the International Best Dressed List....
     (1912-1980)
  • Henry Guinness
    Henry Guinness

    Henry Seymour Guinness was an Ireland politician and banker. He was elected as an Independent member to Seanad ?ireann for 12 years at the 1922 election....
     (1858–1945), Eire Senator 1922–1923
  • Henry Grattan Guinness
    Henry Grattan Guinness

    Henry Grattan Guinness D. D. was an Irish people Protestant Christian preacher, evangelist and author. He was the great evangelist of the Evangelical Awakening and preached during the Ulster Revival of 1859 which drew thousands to hear him....
     (1835–1910)
  • Jasmine Guinness
    Jasmine Guinness

    Jasmine Leonora Guinness in Dublin is a fashion model since 1994 and an heiress to the Guinness family brewing fortune....
     (born 1976)
  • Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne
    Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne

    Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne succeeded as 3rd Baron Moyne in 1992. A member of the Guinness family, he is the son of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and his first wife Diana Mitford , and until his retirement was a merchant banker for Messrs Leopold Joseph....
     (born 1930)
  • Kenelm Lee Guinness
    Kenelm Lee Guinness

    Kenelm Lee Guinness MBE was a racing driver of the 1910s - 1920s. He was part of the Guinness Guinness family....
     (1887-1937)
  • Loel Guinness
    Loel Guinness

    Group Captain Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness Order of the British Empire , a Member of Parliament, usually known as Loel Guinness, was most well-known for his first marriage to the Honourable Joan Yarde-Buller, a daughter of the John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston, who left him for Prince Aly Khan, the eldest son of the Aga Khan...
     (1906-1988)
  • Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh
    Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh

    Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh Order of the garter Order of the Bath Order of St Michael and St George Volunteer Decoration Aide de camp Fellow of the Royal Society, , was an Anglo-Irish businessman, politician and philanthropist....
     (1874-1967)
  • Sabrina Guinness
    Sabrina Guinness

    Sabrina Guinness, to James Guinness and his wife Pauline, n?e Mander.She runs the charity Youth Cable Television in London, is an heiress in the Guinness family, and is famous for her contacts in the Mass media world....
     (born 1955)
  • Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880-1944)
  • Frank V. Guinness, NZ Politician
  • Caroline Blackwood
    Caroline Blackwood

    Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was a writer and artist's muse, and the eldest child of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness....
     (1931-1996)
  • Garech Browne
    Garech Browne

    The Hon. Garech Domnagh Browne, born 25 June, 1939, is a member of the titled family of Oranmore and Browne in the West of Ireland and is a wealthy patron of Irish arts, notably traditional Irish music....
     (born 1939)


  • Henry Channon
    Henry Channon

    Sir Henry "Chips" Channon was an USA-born United Kingdom Conservative Party politican and diary.Born in Chicago to a wealthy family, Channon grew up with a transatlantic childhood, before travelling to France with the American Red Cross in October 1917....
     (1897-1958)
  • Paul Channon
    Paul Channon

    Henry Paul Guinness Channon, Baron Kelvedon, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Southend West for 38 years, from 1959 until 1997....
     (1935-2007)




  • Victoria Niarchos
    Victoria Niarchos

    Victoria Christina Niarchos is a member of the Guinness beer clan.She is a daughter of the late Patrick Benjamin Guinness and his wife , the former Freiin Dolores von F?rstenberg-Herdringen , herself the daughter of the socialite Gloria Guinness....
     (born 1960)


  • Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby
    Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby

    Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby is the son of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby and Grania Guinness.In 1990, he married Nicola Shulman and had three children:...
     (born 1954)


See also

  • Earl of Iveagh
    Earl of Iveagh

    Earl of Iveagh is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the businessman and philanthropist Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh....
     (created 1919)
  • Baron Moyne
    Baron Moyne

    Baron Moyne, of Bury St Edmund in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1932 for the Conservative Party politician Walter Guinness....
     (created 1932)
  • Guinness Baronets
  • Kenwood House
    Kenwood House

    Kenwood House is a former stately home, in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. It is managed by English Heritage....
  • Guinness Trust
    Guinness Trust

    The Guinness Trust is the oldest member of the Guinness Partnership, a group of housing associations. It is a United Kingdom Charitable organization providing affordable housing....
  • Lion's Gate Bridge
  • St. James's Gate Brewery
    St. James's Gate Brewery

    St. James's Gate Brewery is a brewery in Dublin, known as the home of Guinness.Leased for 9,000 years in 1759 by Arthur Guinness at ?45 per year, St....
  • Guinness share-trading fraud
    Guinness share-trading fraud

    The Guinness share-trading fraud was a famous United Kingdom business scandal of the 1980s. It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a ?2.7 billion take-over bid for the scotland drinks company Distillers Company Limited....
  • Families in the Oireachtas
    Families in the Oireachtas

    There is a tradition in Irish politics of having family members succeed each other, frequently in the same parliamentary seat. This article lists families where two or more members of that family have been members of either of the houses of the Oireachtas or of the European Parliament....


Further reading

  • D. Wilson, Dark and Light (Weidenfeld, London 1998)
  • G. Martelli, Man of his Time (London 1957)
  • J. Guinness, Requiem for a Family Business (Macmillan 1997)


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