Guinness family

Guinness family
Guinness family
	Arms granted to The Rev. Hosea Guinness in 1814
Current region	United Kingdom
Current head	Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh
Titles	Earl of Iveagh; Viscount Elveden; Baron Moyne; Baron Ardilaun; Guinness baronets
Motto	Spes Mea In Deo ("My hope is in God")
Estate(s)	Elveden Hall, Suffolk; Biddesden House, Wiltshire; Wilbury House, Wiltshire; Farmleigh, County Dublin; Iveagh House, Dublin; Ashford Castle, County Galway; Leixlip Castle, County Kildare;

The Guinness family is an extensive Anglo-Irish family known for its achievements in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout beer Guinness, as founded by Arthur Guinness in 1759.^[2] Beginning in the 18th century, they became a prominent part of what is known in Ireland as the Protestant Ascendancy;^[3] in the late 19th century they were elevated into the British nobility.^[4]

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.^[5]

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.

Origins

The Guinness family refers to the descendants of Richard Guinness (born c. 1690), an Anglo-Irish Protestant from Celbridge who married Elizabeth Read (1698–1742), the daughter of a farmer from Oughterard, County Kildare.^[4] Details of Richard's life and family background are scarce, with many legends and rumours, and as a result tracing ancestry beyond him has proven difficult. On the subject Lord Moyne, writing in The Times in 1959, wrote:

The origins of our family are hidden in the mists of a not very remote antiquity. The first Guinness of whom there is an undoubted record is Richard Guinness of Celbridge, county Kildare, who was born about 1690 and was living in Leixlip in 1766. Efforts to trace the origin of the family beyond him have met with no success; conjecture, supported by inconclusive pieces of evidence, have led principally in the direction of the Magennis family of county Down and of the Gennys family of Cornwall.^[6]

Magennis of Iveagh

The traditional and longstanding view was that the Guinness's were descended from the Clan Magennis of Iveagh, prominent Gaelic nobility from County Down. The family were Irish Catholics and noted Jacobites who, led by Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount Iveagh, fought at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Despite the differences of religion and surname spelling, members of the Guinness family have long claimed Magennis ancestry. Sir Bernard Burke corroborated this descent in his various genealogical works.^[7] The Rev. Hosea Guinness was granted an altered version of their coat of arms;^[8] and Edward Cecil Guinness, head of the brewing line, chose for his title "Earl of Iveagh" (alluding to descent from the Viscounts Iveagh of the 1623 creation).^[4] A romantic and fanciful rumour existed that Richard Guinness was the illegitimate son of Bryan Magennis before he fled to the Continent.^[9]

In 2007 Patrick Guinness authored Arthur's Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness in which he largely disproves the apparent pretence of descent from Magennis of Iveagh. Instead, based on DNA testing conducted by Trinity College Dublin, Patrick Guinness asserts descent from the Macartans, a lesser County Down clan under Magennis of Iveagh. He further asserts that the ancestors of the Guinness family were not of the chiefly family but in fact mere followers and tenants. According to him, the name derives from the townland of Giuness (Gaelic: Gion Ais) which in 1640 is recorded as property of Phelim Macartan.^[10]^[11] Such work is not conclusive proof as historians continue to argue the matters.^[9]

Ginnis/Gennys of Cornwall

There exists also a lesser-known, but equally fanciful view that the Guinnesses were a branch of the family of Ginnis (also spelled Gennys/Guinnis) of Tralee.^[12]^[13] The family were minor landed gentry of Cornish extraction, who came to Ireland from Cornwall during the Cromwellian conquest of the 1650s. The origin of the name in this case would be from St Gennys, near Padstow, with Guinness representing a corruption of the original surname and family branch in Kildare/Dublin. Parallel and contrasting Magennis, one rumour was that Richard Guinness was the illegitimate son of an English (i.e. Williamite) soldier stranded in Ireland after the Boyne, and an Irish girl.^[9] According to the same sort of rumours, Richard was a groom who eloped with Elizabeth Read.^[9]

Henry Seymour Guinness, of the banking line who was also the first to suggest "Owen Guinnis" as the father of Richard, was the main proponent of Cornish origins.^[4]^[14] Patrick Guinness dismisses the Cornwall origin on the basis that Henry Guinness's great-uncle was an MP for Barnstaple and bankrupted, and therefore bias and unreliable.^[10] He does however concur with the theory that Owen Guinnis was the father of Richard. It is worth noting that the descendants of the banking line (which includes descendants of the 1st Earl of Iveagh) certainly have some Cornish ancestry through their descent from the Jago family of Dublin, who certainly originated from Cornwall.^[7]

Prominent members

Richard Guinness (c.1690–c.1766)
- Arthur Guinness (1725–1803); founder of the Guinness brewery in 1759; married Olivia Whitmore
  - The Rev. Hosea Guinness (1765–1841)
    - Francis Hart Vicesimus Guinness (1819–1891); New Zealand magistrate
      - Sir Arthur Guinness (1846–1913); Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
  - The Second Arthur Guinness (1768–1855); married firstly Anne Lee, and secondly Maria Barker
    - Benjamin Guinness (1798–1868)
      - Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840–1915); created Baron Ardilaun in 1880
      - Benjamin Lee Guinness (1842–1900)
        Sir Algernon Arthur St Lawrence Lee Guinness (1883–1954); racing driver
        
        Kenelm Lee Guinness (1887–1937); racing driver and spark plug manufacturer
      - Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927)
        Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh (1874–1967); married Lady Gwendolen Onslow (1881–1966)
        Arthur Guinness, Viscount Elveden (1912–1945)
        Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh (1937–1992); married Miranda Smiley (1939–2010)
        Arthur Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh (born 1969)
        
        Lady Honor Guinness (1909–1976); married Henry Channon
        Paul Channon (1935–2007)
        
        Lady Brigid Guinness (1920–1995); married Prince Frederick of Prussia
        Prince Frederick Nicholas of Prussia (born 3 May 1946); married Hon. Victoria Lucinda Mancroft (born 1952)
        
        Princess Antonia of Prussia (born 28 April 1955); married Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington
        Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington (born 31 January 1978); married Jemma Kidd
        
        Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness (1876–1949)
        Aileen Guinness (1904–1999)
        
        Maureen Guinness (1907–1998); married Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909–1945)
        Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1938–1988); married his fourth cousin Serena Belinda (Lindy) Rosemary Guinness
        
        Lady Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996); married firstly Lucian Freud, secondly Israel Citkowitz, and thirdly Robert Lowell
        
        Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995); married Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne
        Garech Browne (1939–2018)
        
        Tara Browne (1945–1966)
        
        Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (1880–1944)
        Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne (1905–1992)
        Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930); married firstly Ingrid Olivia Georgia Wyndham in 1951, secondly Suzanne Lisney in 1964, and had three children with Susan Mary Taylor
        (of 1st) Hon. Catherine Ingrid Guinness (born 1952); married firstly James Charteris, 13th Earl of Wemyss in 1983, and secondly Robert Fleetwood Hesketh in 1990
        
        (of 1st) Hon. Jasper Jonathon Richard Guinness (1954–2011); married Camilla Alexandra Uniacke in 1985
        
        (of 1st ) Hon. Valentine Guy Bryan Guinness (born 1959); married Lucinda "Lulu" Rivett-Carnac
        
        (of 2nd) Hon. Sebastian Walter Denis Guinness (born 1964); married firstly Silvie Dominique Fleury in 1987, and secondly Peggy Stephaich in 1995
        
        (of 2nd) Hon. Daphne Suzannah Diana Guinness (born 1967); married Spyros Niarchos in 1987
        
        (of 3) Diana Gloria Isolde Rose Dimilo Taylor (born 1981)
        
        (of 3) Aster Sophia Mary Taylor (born 1984)
        
        (of 3) Thomas Julian William Jon Taylor (born 1986)
        
        Hon. Desmond Guinness (1931–2020)
        Patrick Guinness (born 1958)
        Jasmine Guinness (born 1976)
        
        Marina Guinness
        
        Hon. Rosaleen Elisabeth Guinness (born 1937)
        
        Hon. Diarmid Edward Guinness (born 1938)
        
        Hon. Fiona Evelyn Guinness (born 1940)
        
        Hon. Dr Finn Benjamin Guinness (born 1945)
        
        Hon. Thomasin Margaret Guinness (born 1947)
        
        Hon. Kieran Arthur Guinness (born 1949)
        Malachy Guinness (born 1986)
        
        Hon. Catriona Rose Guinness (born 1950)
        
        Hon. Erskine Stuart Richard Guinness (born 1953)
        
        Hon. Mirabel Jane Guinness (born 1956)
        
        Hon. Grania Guinness (1920–1994); married Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby
        Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby (born 1954)
      - Anne Guinness (1839–1889); married William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket
        William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket (1864–1920)
        
        Benjamin Plunket (born 1870)
        
        Olive Plunket; married Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam
        Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (born 1935); married firstly Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, secondly Somerset de Chair, and thirdly Dr. Christopher Tadgell
        Lord Nicholas Hervey (1961–1998)
  - John Grattan Guinness (1783–1850)
    - John Grattan Guinness (died 1871)
      - Samuel Guinness (1851–1940)
        James Henry Guinness (1879–1952)
        Gerald Henry Grattan Guinness (1909–1985)
        Ivor Grattan-Guinness (1941–2014)
    - Henry Grattan Guinness (1835–1910); Protestant missionary
      - Harry Grattan Guinness (1861–1915); Protestant missionary and first leader of Regions Beyond Missionary Union
        Annie Geraldine "Gudruna" Guinness (1888–1981)^[15]^: 43
        
        Ruth Eileen (Guinness) Fisher (1900–1982), youngest child of 9, wife of Sir Ronald Fisher, married 26 April 1917.^[15]^: 43
        George Fisher (1919–1943), R.A.F. pilot, killed in action in the Mediterranean theater in late 1943 at age 24^[15]^: 397
        
        Katie Fisher (1921–1921), died in infancy after surgery to remove a pebble from her lung (she inhaled it after an accident in which her toddler brother George poured pebbles in her mouth at the beach)^[15]^: 98
        
        Harry Fisher (1924–2005)
        
        Margaret Fisher (1925–2010)^[15]^: 395
        
        Joan Fisher Box (b. 1926), author of R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist^[15]^: 1–512
        
        Phyllis Fisher (b. 1929)^[16]
        
        Elizabeth Fisher (dates unknown)^[16]
        
        Rose Fisher (dates unknown)^[16]
        
        June Fisher (1929–1995), president of the National Union of Teachers^[16]
        
        Howard Wyndham Guinness (1903–1979)
      - Gershom Whitfield Guinness (1869–1927), missionary in China
        Henry Whitfield Guinness (1908–1996)
        Os Guinness (born 1941)
      - Mary Geraldine Guinness Taylor (1865–1949), missionary in China and a writer
- Samuel Guinness (died 1795)
  - Richard Guinness (1755–1829)
    - Robert Rundell Guinness (1789–1857), founder of Guinness Mahon
      - Richard Seymour Guinness (1826–1915)
        Robert Darley Guinness (1858–1938)
        Elizabeth Muriel Smythe Guinness (1890–1974)
        
        Benjamin Seymour Guinness (1868–1947), Prince (life title created by the King of Italy as husband of an Italian Duchess)
        Thomas "Loel" Guinness (1906–1988), married Gloria Rubio y Alatorre (1913–1980)
        Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931–1965), married Dolores von Fürstenberg-Hedringen (1936–2012)
        Maria Alexandra Guinness (born 1956), married Count de Quatrebarbes
        
        Loel Patrick Guinness (born 1957)
        
        Victoria Guinness (born 1960), later Victoria Niarchos following her marriage to Philip Niarchos
        
        William Loel Seymour Guinness (born 1939), married 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), married her fourth cousin Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
        
        Meraud Guinness (1904–1993)
        
        Tanis Guinness (1908–1993)
      - Henry Guinness (1829–1893)
        Henry Guinness (1858–1945)
        Judy Guinness (1910–1952)
        
        Lucy Guinness (1870–1950), married Philip de László (1869–1937)
        
        Eustace Guinness (1860–1901)
        Humphrey Patrick Guinness (1902–1986)
        
        Howard Rundell Guinness (1863–1937)
        Edward Douglas Guinness (1893–1983)
        Sir Howard Christian Sheldon Guinness (1932–2019)
        
        Sir John Guinness (1935–2020)
        
        Sir Arthur Rundell Guinness (1895–1951)
        James Edward Alexander Rundell Guinness (1924–2006)
        Hugo Guinness (born 1959)
        
        Sabrina Guinness (born 1955)
        
        Anita Patience Guinness (born 1957), married Amschel Rothschild
        
        Julia Samuel (born 1959)
        
        Ivan Douglas Rundell Guinness (1927–1956)
        Kevin Michael Rundell Guinness (born 1953), married Peta "Bunny" Ellis (born 1955)
        
        Richard Noel Guinness (1870–1960)
        Henry Eustace Guinness (1897–1972)
        John Henry Guinness (1935–1988), married Jennifer Hollwey (1937–2016)
      - Mary Catherine Ferguson (1823–1905)
    - Richard Samuel Guinness (1797–1857), MP

References

^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1899). Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 363. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
^ "Herald" article, 2009
^ Essay by 2nd Lord Moyne, The Times 20 November 1959; (Online text in Eugenics Review, April 1960)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mullally, Frederic (1981). The Silver Salver: The Story of the Guinness Family. ISBN 978-0-246-11271-2.
^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2066–2067. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
^ Essay by 2nd Lord Moyne, The Times 20 November 1959; (Online text in Eugenics Review, April 1960)
^ ^a ^b Burke's Peeraege
^ Per saltire gules and azure a lion rampant Or on a chief ermine, a dexter hand couped at the wrist of the first, include the Red Hand of Ulster. His motto was Spes mea in Deo [My hope in God]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mansfield, Stephen (2009). The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World. Thomas Nelson. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-4185-8067-4.
^ ^a ^b Guinness, Patrick (2008). Arthur's Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness. Peter Owen. ISBN 978-0-7206-1296-7.
^ "Guinness origins begin to settle". BBC News. 15 December 2007.
^ O'Laughlin, Michael C. (1994). Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland. Irish Roots Cafe. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-940134-36-2.
^ Amery, John S. (1917). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries. J.G. Commin. p. 76.
^ The Guinness Family ... Compiled by H.S. Guinness ... and B. Guinness. Arranged by M. Galwey. London. 1953.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Box, Joan Fisher (1978). R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-09300-9.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Box, Joan Fisher (1978). R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons. p. Plate 11. ISBN 0-471-09300-9.

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)

[1] Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1899). Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority. T.C. & E.C. Jack. p. 363. Retrieved 2 August 2017.

[2] "Herald" article, 2009

[3] Essay by 2nd Lord Moyne, The Times 20 November 1959; (Online text in Eugenics Review, April 1960)

[:0-4] Mullally, Frederic (1981). The Silver Salver: The Story of the Guinness Family. ISBN 978-0-246-11271-2.

[burke-5] Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 2066–2067. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.

[6] Essay by 2nd Lord Moyne, The Times 20 November 1959; (Online text in Eugenics Review, April 1960)

[:2-7] Burke's Peeraege

[8] Per saltire gules and azure a lion rampant Or on a chief ermine, a dexter hand couped at the wrist of the first, include the Red Hand of Ulster. His motto was Spes mea in Deo [My hope in God]

[:3-9] Mansfield, Stephen (2009). The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World. Thomas Nelson. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-4185-8067-4.

[:1-10] Guinness, Patrick (2008). Arthur's Round: The Life and Times of Brewing Legend Arthur Guinness. Peter Owen. ISBN 978-0-7206-1296-7.

[11] "Guinness origins begin to settle". BBC News. 15 December 2007.

[12] O'Laughlin, Michael C. (1994). Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland. Irish Roots Cafe. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-940134-36-2.

[13] Amery, John S. (1917). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries. J.G. Commin. p. 76.

[14] The Guinness Family ... Compiled by H.S. Guinness ... and B. Guinness. Arranged by M. Galwey. London. 1953.

[Box1978-15] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Box, Joan Fisher (1978). R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-09300-9.

[Box1978b-16] Box, Joan Fisher (1978). R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. John Wiley & Sons. p. Plate 11. ISBN 0-471-09300-9.

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Guinness family

Origins

Magennis of Iveagh

Ginnis/Gennys of Cornwall

Prominent members

See also

References

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External links

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