Guinness family
The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic 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.[1]
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 Samuel (1727-95) who set up as a goldbeater in Dublin in 1750, and his son Richard (1755–1830), a Dublin barrister.[2]
Prominent members
Brewing line
Earls of Iveagh
Lords Moyne
Banking line
Religious and Political Line
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See also
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
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