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Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Iveagh
KP GCVO FRS
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The 1st Earl of Iveagh.
Born 10 November 1847
Clontarf, Dublin, United Kingdom
Died 7 October 1927 (aged 79)
Grosvenor Place, London, United Kingdom
Resting place Elveden, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Residence Iveagh House
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin
Net worth £13.5 million
(£717 million in 2016)
Political party Irish Unionist Alliance
Parent(s)
Family Guinness family

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh KP GCVO FRS (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Irish philanthropist and businessman.

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 of Castleknock, County Dublin, for helping with the visit of the then Prince of Wales to Ireland. In 1891, Guinness was created Baron Iveagh, of Iveagh in County Down. He was appointed a Knight of St Patrick in 1895, and ten years later was advanced in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Viscount Iveagh. Elected to the Royal Society in 1906, he was two years later elected nineteenth Chancellor of Dublin University in 1908–27, he served as a vice-president of the Royal Dublin Society from 1906–27. In 1910 he was appointed GCVO. In 1919, he was created Earl of Iveagh and Viscount Elveden, of Elveden in the County of Suffolk.


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