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Edward Cecil Guinness, I conte di Iveagh (Dublino, 10 novembre 1847 – Londra, 7 ottobre 1927), è stato un filantropo irlandese
Conte di Iveagh è un titolo nobiliare nel Pari del Regno Unito. È stato creato nel 1919 per l'uomo d'affari e filantropo Edward Guinness, I visconte di Iveagh. Era il terzo figlio di Sir Benjamin Guinness, I baronetto, di Ashford, e il pronipote di Arthur Guinness, il fondatore della birra Guinness. Guinness era già stato creato un baronetto ...
Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, DL (born 25 August 1969), styled Viscount Elveden until 1992, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and businessman. Lord Iveagh is a member of the Guinness family.
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Born in Clontarf, Dublin, Guinness was the third son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, and younger brother of Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, graduating with BA in 1870, he served as Sheriff of Dublin in 1876, and nine years later became the city's High Sheriff. That same year, he was created a baronet ...
Lord Iveagh was managing director of the Guinness partnership and company, from his father's death in 1868 until 1889, running the largest brewery in the world - it spanned 64 acres (26 ha). He later became chairman of the boardfor life. By the age of 29 he had taken over sole ownership of the Dublin brewery after buying out the half-share of his o...
Like his father and brother, Lord Iveagh was a generous philanthropist and contributed almost £1 million to slum clearance and housing projects, among other causes. In London this was the 'Guinness Trust', founded in 1890, that manages "over 66,000 homes" in 2020. Most of his aesthetic and philanthropic legacy to Dublin is still intact. The Dublin ...
Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases). In 1908, he co-funded the Radium Institute in London. He also sponsored new physics and botany buildings in Trinity College Dublinin 1903, and part-funded the...
Interested in fine art all his life, from the 1870s Edward Cecil amassed a distinguished collection of Old Master paintings, antique furniture and historic textiles. In the late 1880s he was a client of Joe Duveen buying screens and furniture; Duveen realised that he was spending much more on fine art at Agnews, and refocused his own business on ar...
Iveagh's father had sat as a Conservative MP for Dublin in the 1860s, as did his brother Arthur in the 1870s. Iveagh limited his involvement to acting as High Sheriff of County Dublin in 1885, mindful of the growing movement towards Irish Home Rule in the 1880s and the growth of the electorate under the 1884 Act. He did however stand as a Conservat...
On land, Iveagh's favourite hobby was to drive a coach-and-four (horses), a very physical activity, occasionally driving from Dublin to the Punchestown Racecourse about 20 miles away, and back. He also was a keen yachtsman, and in 1897 he won a race between England and Kiel that was sponsored by Kaiser Wilhelm. A member of several clubs including t...
After his death in 1927 at Grosvenor Place, London, Iveagh was buried at Elveden, Suffolk. His estate was assessed for probate at £13,486,146 16s. 2d. (roughly equivalent to £856,407,942 in 2021). This remained a British record until the death of Sir John Ellerman in 1933. Although probate was sought in Britain, a part of the death duties was paid ...
In 1873, Iveagh married his third cousin Adelaide Guinness, nicknamed "Dodo". She was descended from the banking line of Guinnesses, and was the daughter of Richard S. Guinness, barrister and MP, and his wife Katherine, a daughter of Sir Charles Jenkinson. Adelaide's most famous portrait was painted circa 1885 by George Elgar Hicks.[citation needed...
Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, II conte di Iveagh (Londra, 29 marzo 1874 – Woking, 14 settembre 1967), è stato un politico e filantropo irlandese
Earl of Iveagh (pronounced / ˈ aɪ v i / EYE-vee—especially in Dublin—or / ˈ aɪ v ɑː / EYE-vah) is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1919 for the businessman and philanthropist Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh.
Edward was rewarded by being made a baronet of Castleknock in 1885 (the location of his country residence, Farmleigh). He was subsequently made Baron Iveagh, of Iveagh in the County of Down, in 1891, the historic title of the Clan Magennis.
