Arthur Guinness
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Arthur Guinness (September 24, 1725 – January 23, 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of Guinness Breweries.
He was born in Celbridge, County Kildare, the son of an Anglican land steward. His father worked for the Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Aruthur Price, and brewed beer for the other workers on the estate. In his will, Dr. Price left £100 each to the Guinnesses, father and son. With the money, Arthur leased a brewery in Leixlip in 1755. Five years later he left his younger brother in charge of that enterprise and moved on to another in St. James' Gate, Dublin. Within eight years, he was the master of the Dublin Corporation of Brewers.
He married Olivia Whitmore in 1761, and they had 21 children, 10 of whom lived to adulthood.
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- D. Wilson, Dark and Light (Weidenfeld 1998).
- St. James's Gate Brewery
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