Earl of Iveagh

Earldom of Iveagh

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Per saltire Gules and Azure a Lion rampant Or on a Chief Ermine a Dexter Hand couped at the wrist of the first, a Crescent for difference (for Guinness); 2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Fess between three Crescents Sable a Trefoil slipped Or (for Lee)[1]
Creation date 30 September 1919[2]
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder Edward Guinness
Present holder Edward Guinness, 4th Earl
Heir apparent Arthur Guinness, Viscount Elveden
Subsidiary titles Viscount Elveden
Viscount Iveagh
Baron Iveagh
Seat(s) Elveden Hall
Former seat(s) Iveagh House
Armorial motto Spes mea in Deo ("My hope lies in God")

Earl of Iveagh[note 1] is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the businessman and philanthropist Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh. He was the third son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, of Ashford, and the great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness brewery.[1]

Guinness had already been created a baronet, of Castle Knock in the County of Dublin, in 1885. He was subsequently made Baron Iveagh, of Iveagh in the County of Down, in 1891, then Viscount Iveagh, of Iveagh in the County of Down, in 1905, and was made Viscount Elveden, of Elveden in the County of Suffolk, at the same time that he was given the earldom in 1919. All titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1]

As of 2015, the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the fourth Earl, who succeeded his father in 1992. As a descendant of the first Guinness Baronet of Ashford, he is also in remainder to that title.[5]

The Conservative politician Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, was the third son of the first Earl.

The family seat is Elveden Hall, near Elveden, Suffolk, formerly residence of Duleep Singh, the last maharaja of the Sikh Empire, purchased by the first earl in 1894.[6]

Earls of Iveagh (1919)

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Arthur Benjamin Geoffrey Guinness, Viscount Elveden (b. 6 January 2003).[1]

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See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Commonly pronounced "eye-vee"—especially in Dublin—or more correctly "eye-vah"[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2066. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  2. ↑ "No. 31610". The London Gazette. 21 October 1919. p. 12889.
  3. ↑ Arthur Guinness and Dublin's Iveagh legacy. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  4. ↑ Pronunciation of Surnames, from the book Enquire Within Upon Everything. 119th Edition, March 1939. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  5. ↑ Prokesch, Steven (20 June 1992). "Lord Iveagh, Guinness Chairman In a Troubled Time, Is Dead at 55". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Bryant, Julius (2003). Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest. Yale University Press. p. 370. ISBN 0300102062. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  7. 1 2 Burke 2003, p. 2067
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