Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an
Irish
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businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Anglo-Irish
Guinness family
The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout Guinnes ...
, he was the head of the family's eponymous
brewing business, making him the richest man in Ireland. A prominent philanthropist, he is best remembered for his provision of affordable housing in London and Dublin through charitable trusts.
Public life
Born in
Clontarf, Dublin
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, Guinness was the third son of
Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet (1 November 1798 – 19 May 1868) was an Irish brewer and philanthropist.
Brewer
Born in Dublin, he was the third son of the second Arthur Guinness (1768–1855), and his wife Anne Lee, and a grandson of ...
, and younger brother of
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915), known as Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Irish businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's G ...
. Educated at
Trinity College Dublin
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, graduating with
BA in 1870, he served as
Sheriff
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of Dublin in 1876, and nine years later became the
city's High Sheriff. That same year, he was created a
baronet
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of
Castleknock
Castleknock () is an affluent suburb located west of the centre of Dublin city, Ireland. It is centered on the village of the same name in Fingal.
In addition to the suburb, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: ...
,
County Dublin
"Action to match our speech"
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, for helping with the visit of the then
Prince of Wales
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to
Ireland
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. In 1891, Guinness was created Baron Iveagh, of
Iveagh
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in
County Down
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. He was appointed a
Knight of St Patrick in 1895, and ten years later was advanced in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
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to Viscount Iveagh. He was appointed
Honorary Colonel of the
Dublin City Artillery Militia
The Dublin City Artillery Militia was a part-time reserve unit of Britain's Royal Artillery based in Dublin, Ireland, from 1854 to 1909.
Background
The long-standing national Militia of the United Kingdom was revived by the Militia Act 1852, ena ...
in 1899. Elected to the
Royal Society
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in 1906, he was two years later elected nineteenth
Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 1908–1927, he served as a vice-president of the
Royal Dublin Society from 1906 to 1927. In 1910 he was appointed
GCVO
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. In 1919, he was created Earl of Iveagh and Viscount Elveden, of Elveden in the
County
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of
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
.
Business
Lord Iveagh was managing director of the
Guinness
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partnership and company, from his father's death in 1868 until 1889, running the largest brewery in the world - it spanned . He later became
chairman of the board
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for life.
By the age of 29 he had taken over sole ownership of the Dublin brewery after buying out the half-share of his older brother
Lord Ardilaun
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915), known as Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Irish businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's G ...
for £600,000 in 1876. Over the next 10 years, Edward Cecil brought unprecedented success to
St James's Gate, multiplying the value of his brewery enormously. By 1879 he was brewing 565,000
hogsheads of
stout. 7 years later, in 1886, he was selling 635,000 hogsheads in Ireland, 212,000 in Britain, and 60,000 elsewhere, a total of 907,000 hogsheads.
He then became the richest man in Ireland after floating two-thirds of the company in 1886 on the
London Stock Exchange
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for £6 million before retiring a multi-millionaire at the age of 40. He remained chairman of the new public company
Guinness
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, and was its largest shareholder, retaining about 35% of the stock. The amount can be compared to the 1886
GDP
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of the
UK, which was £116 million. By 1914 the brewery's output had doubled again from the 1886 level, to 1,877,000 hogsheads.
In 1902 he commissioned the
Guinness Storehouse
Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Since opening in 2000, it has received over twenty million visitors.
The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the for ...
, that is today one of Ireland's main tourist attractions.
Public housing
Like his father and brother, Lord Iveagh was a generous philanthropist and contributed almost £1 million to
slum clearance
Slum clearance, slum eviction or slum removal is an urban renewal strategy used to transform low income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing. This has long been a strategy for redeveloping urban communities; ...
and housing projects, among other causes. In London this was the '
Guinness Trust
The Guinness Partnership is one of the largest providers of affordable housing and care in England. Founded as a charitable trust in 1890, it is now a Community Benefit Society with eight members. Bloomberg classify it as a real estate owner a ...
', 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 branch of the Guinness Trust became the
Iveagh Trust
The Iveagh Trust is a provider of affordable housing in and around Dublin, Ireland. It was initially a component of the Guinness Trust, founded in 1890 by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, great-grandson of the founder of the Guinness Bre ...
in 1903, by a private Act of Parliament, which funded the largest area of urban renewal in Edwardian Dublin, and still provides over 10% of the social housing in central Dublin. In 1908 he gave the large back garden of his house at 80
Stephens Green in central Dublin, known as the "
Iveagh Gardens
The Iveagh Gardens (; ga, Gairdíní Uí Eachach) is a public park located between Clonmel Street and Upper Hatch Street, near the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland. It is a national, as opposed to a municipal park, and designated as a ...
", to the new
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland ...
, which is now a public park. Previously he had bought and cleared some slums on the north side of
St Patrick's Cathedral and in 1901 he created the public gardens known as "St. Patrick's Park". In nearby Francis Street he built the
Iveagh Market
The Iveagh Markets is a former indoor market built in the Edwardian architectural style on Francis Street and John Dillon Street in The Liberties neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, that was open from 1906 until the 1990s. As of 2020, the site r ...
to enable street traders to sell produce out of the rain.
Iveagh was portrayed as "Guinness Trust" in a
"Spy" cartoon in July 1891.
Medical and scientific research
Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the
Lister Institute
The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, informally known as the Lister Institute, was established as a research institute (the British Institute of Preventive Medicine) in 1891, with bacteriologist Marc Armand Ruffer as its first director, u ...
in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the
Pasteur Institute
The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines f ...
, studying infectious diseases). In 1908, he co-funded the Radium Institute in London. He also sponsored new physics and botany buildings in
Trinity College Dublin
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in 1903, and part-funded the students' residence at Trinity Hall, Dartry, in 1908.
Iveagh helped finance the
British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and
Mount Iveagh, a
mountain
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in the
Supporters Range in
Antarctica
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, is named for him.
Art collector
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 art sales. He later recalled Edward Cecil as a: "stocky gentleman with a marked
Irish brogue
Hiberno-English (from Latin ''Hibernia'': "Ireland"), and in ga, Béarla na hÉireann. or Irish English, also formerly Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland a ...
".
While he was furnishing his London home at
Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner is between Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Mayfair in London, England. It primarily refers to its major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park, that was designed by Decimus Burton. Six streets converge at the junc ...
, after he had retired, he began building his art collection in earnest. Much of his collection of paintings was donated to the nation after his death in 1927 and is housed at the Iveagh Bequest at
Kenwood, Hampstead, north London. While this lays claim to much of his collection of paintings, it is
Farmleigh
Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the north-west of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The ...
that best displays his taste in architecture as well as his tastes in antique furniture and textiles.
Iveagh was also a patron of then-current artists such as the British portraitist
Henry Keyworth Raine
Henry Keyworth Raine (1872–1934) was a British portrait painting, portraitist.
Life
Born in York, he was the son of the James Raine (Chancellor), Reverend James Raine and Ann Jane Keyworth; and the great nephew of William Powell Frith,
In ...
Political life
Iveagh's father had sat as a
Conservative
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MP for Dublin in the 1860s, as did his brother
Arthur
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in the 1870s. Iveagh limited his involvement to acting as
High Sheriff of County Dublin
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in 1885, mindful of the growing movement towards
Irish Home Rule
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in the 1880s and the growth of the electorate under the
1884 Act. He did however stand as a Conservative for the seat of
Dublin St Stephen's Green in the
1885 general election, losing to the Irish Parliamentary Party candidate.
Given his wealth he preferred to effect social improvements himself, and preferred a seat in the House of Lords, which he achieved in 1891. He supported the
Irish Unionist Alliance
The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and ...
. In 1913 he refused to lock out his workforce during the
Dublin Lockout
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. In 1917–18, he took part in the ill-fated
Irish Convention
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that attempted find a moderate solution to the Irish nationalists' demands. Though opposed to
Sinn Féin
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The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gri ...
, he had a personal friendship with
W. T. Cosgrave
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who emerged as the first leader of the
Irish Free State
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in 1922.
Like many others in the Irish business world, he had feared that Irish Home Rule would result in new taxes or customs duties between Dublin and Britain, his largest market. The existing
free trade
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within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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would likely turn
protectionist
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, causing a loss of sales, employment and profits. In the event, the new Free State increased the tax on sales within Ireland, but not on exports.
Sporting interests
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
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about 20 miles away, and back. He also was a keen
yachtsman
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, and in 1897 he won a race between England and
Kiel
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Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the J ...
that was sponsored by
Kaiser Wilhelm. A member of several clubs including the
Royal St. George Yacht Club, his main boat was the 204-ton
schooner
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"''Cetonia''" which he bought in 1880, making frequent appearances at
Cowes Week
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until 1914.
Record estate
After his death in 1927 at
Grosvenor Place
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, London, Iveagh was buried at
Elveden
Elveden is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. In 2005 it had a population of 270. The village is bypassed by the A11 between Cambridge and Norwich, which ran through the centre of the villa ...
, Suffolk. His estate was assessed for
probate
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at £13,486,146 16s. 2d. (roughly equivalent to £ in ).
This remained a British record until the death of Sir
John Ellerman in 1933. Although
probate
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was sought in Britain, a part of the death duties was paid to the new
Irish Free State
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. His will bequeathed
Kenwood House
Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a former stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath. The house was originally constructed in the 17th century and served as a residence for the Earls of Mans ...
in
Hampstead
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to the nation as a museum for his art collection, known as the "Iveagh Bequest".
In 1936 his family installed the "Iveagh Window" in his memory, in the North Transept of
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The window was designed and made by
Sir Frank Brangwyn.
In 1939 Iveagh's sons gave his Dublin home at 80 St. Stephen's Green to the Irish Free State, and it was renamed
Iveagh House
Iveagh House is a Georgian house which now contains the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Ireland. It is also sometimes used colloquially as a metonym referring to the department itself.
Iveagh House was originally ...
. Since then it has been the home of the
Department of Foreign Affairs, and "Iveagh House" has become the
metonym
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Etymology
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of the department.
Family
In 1873, Iveagh married his third cousin Adelaide Guinness, nicknamed "Dodo" (1844–1916). She was descended from the banking line of Guinnesses, and was the daughter of
Richard S. Guinness (1797–1857), barrister and MP, and his wife Katherine (1808–81), a daughter of
Sir Charles Jenkinson.
Adelaide's most famous portrait was painted circa 1885 by
George Elgar Hicks.
They had 3 sons:
*
Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh
Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, (29 March 1874 – 14 September 1967) was an Anglo-Irish businessman, politician, oarsman and philanthropist. Born in London, he was the eldest son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh. ...
(1874–1967)
*
The Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness (1876–1949)
*
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, DSO & Bar, PC (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944), was an Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assass ...
(1880–1944)
Arms
See also
*
Farmleigh
Farmleigh is the official Irish state guest house. It was formerly one of the Dublin residences of the Guinness family. It is situated on an elevated position above the River Liffey to the north-west of the Phoenix Park, in Castleknock. The ...
*
Guinness family
The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the dry stout Guinnes ...
References
Bibliography
* G. Martelli, Man of his time (London 1957).
* D. Wilson, Dark and Light (Weidenfeld, London 1998).
*
J. Guinness, Requiem for a family business (Macmillan, London 1997).
* S. Dennison and O.MacDonagh, Guinness 1886-1939 From incorporation to the Second World War (Cork University Press 1998).
* F. Aalen, The Iveagh Trust The first hundred years 1890-1990 (Dublin 1990).
* J. Bryant, Kenwood: The Iveagh Bequest (English Heritage publication 2004)
* 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).
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