Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun

Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun ( born November 1, 1840 in Clontarf, Dublin, † January 20, 1915 in Raheny ) was an Irish businessman, politician and philanthropist.

Guinness was born in 1840 as the eldest son of Benjamin Guinness ( 1798-1868 ) and Elizabeth Guinness ( 1813-1865 ). He attended Eton College and later studied at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1868, he was, after the death of his father, was elected 2nd Baronet, of Ashford and the first time for the Conservative Party in the House of Commons, where he remained until 1870. Guinness was an opponent of any Home Rule efforts, and advocated instead the Union between Ireland and Great Britain. In 1871 he married Olivia Hedges -White, daughter of the Earl of Bantry. In 1874 he succeeded in re-entry into the British House of Commons. In 1876 he retired from the family business and sold his share of the brewery his brother Edward, with whom he had led the company after the death of her father. 1880 Arthur Guinness was raised after his retirement from the House of Commons Baron Ardilaun, of Ashford in the County of Galway.

Like his father sat Guinness for the restoration and preservation of historic buildings concerned, it was, for example, together with his brother Edward, which began with her ​​father rehabilitation of Marsh's Library complete.

From 1892 to 1913 he was president of the Royal Dublin Society. Guinness died in 1915 in Raheny and was buried in the local cemetery. Since Guinness, had no children, went out of the title Baron Ardilaun. The baronet, which he had inherited from his father, but was passed on to his nephew Algernon Arthur St. Lawrence Lee Guinness.

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