Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, (born 25 August 1969), styled Viscount Elveden until 1992, is an

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and businessman. Lord Iveagh is a member of the

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Biography

, Iveagh is the son of

Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh (20 May 1937 – 18 June 1992), styled Viscount Elveden between 1945 and 1967, was an Irish businessman and politician. He was chairman of Guinness plc from 1962 to 1986, and then its preside ...

and his wife, Miranda Smiley, and is known to his family and friends as Edward, or Ned, Iveagh. Becoming Earl of Iveagh on his father's death on 18 June 1992, when he was aged 23, he was then one of the youngest

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s entitled to sit in the

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, which he regularly attended. He did not join a political party but sat as a

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. On 11 November 1999, he was among the majority of the hereditary members who were removed from the Lords by the

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. On 27 October 2001, Lord Iveagh married the interior designer Clare Hazell at St Andrew's and St Patrick's Church, Elveden, Suffolk. The couple have two sons, including Arthur, Viscount Elveden (born 2002). They subsequently divorced. Iveagh lives on the Elveden Estate in

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, which comprises some 2.6% of the county. The land is occupied as a single arable farm for growing root vegetables, with cereals as a break crop. Approximately is woodland. In 1999, Iveagh sold his family's Irish home,

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and its park, adjacent to the

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, to the

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for the market price of €29.2m (£18.9m).

Arms

References

External links

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A Year in the Life of a Country Estate
– A series of 12 articles about Elveden from the BBC, dating from 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Iveagh, Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of 1969 births Living people 20th-century Anglo-Irish people 21st-century Anglo-Irish people Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh 4 Deputy lieutenants of Suffolk Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers People from Elveden People from County Kildare

Iveagh Iveagh ( ; ) is the name of several historical territorial divisions in what is now County Down, Northern Ireland. Originally it was a Gaelic Irish territory, ruled by the ''Uí Echach Cobo'' and part of the overkingdom of Ulaid. From the 12th ...