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Mariga Guinness (born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach; 21 September 1932 – 8 May 1989) was an architectural conservationist and socialite, and co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society.
Guinness, Mariga (1932–89), architectural conservationist and socialite, was born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach on 21 September 1932 in London, the only daughter of Albrecht von Urach (d. 1969), a member of the royal house of Wurtemberg from Schloss-Liechtenstein in southern Germany, and Rosemary Blackadder (d. 1975) from ...
It is an extraordinary tribute to the Hon Desmond Guinness, who has died aged 88, that it is merely an exaggeration to say that, with his first wife Marie-Gabrielle (“Mariga”) von Urach, a...
Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , and his then wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
24 ago 2020 · The writer was a young man called Desmond Guinness, who, together with his wife Mariga (née Hermione Marie-Gabrielle von Urach), had come to Ireland a couple of years earlier and begun looking for a house to buy.
- Robert O’Byrne
21 ago 2020 · Desmond Guinness and his wife, Mariga, brought Irish Georgian architecture, furniture, and art onto the international stage in the 1960s.
The Irish Georgian Society was originally founded in 1958 by the Hon. Desmond Guinness and Mariga Guinness for the protection of buildings of architectural merit in Ireland. Many fine houses have been saved through their enthusiasm and commitment, and the dedication of members and supporters over the past six decades.
