Patrick Guinness

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Not to be confused with Patrick McGuinness or Humphrey Patrick Guinness.

KCEG KLJ

Patrick Guinness
BornPatrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness
(1956-01-08) January 8, 1956 (age 68)[citation needed]
Dublin, Ireland
LanguageHistorian
NationalityBritish, Irish
SpouseLiz Casey
Louise Arundel
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(m. 1990)​
Children5, including Jasmine
ParentsDesmond Guinness
Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach

Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness, KCEG KLJ (born 1 August 1956[citation needed] in Dublin) is an Anglo-Irish historian and author and one of the heirs of the Guinness business dynasty. Son of Desmond and Mariga Guinness (born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach), he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He is a financial analyst. He is a former representative of Sotheby's in Ireland.

Historian[edit]

An historian, Patrick Guinness wrote the first biography of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness Brewery dynasty.[1][2] He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics.[3][4] He was a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (2004–2014).[5]

He has produced monographs on the early history of the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick in Kildare, 1758–91;[6] on the depositions from Kildare on the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641;[7] and on the Irish Jacobite ancestry of the Mitford family (privately published). In 2016 he addressed the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.[8]

Family[edit]

His daughter, by his first marriage to Liz Casey, is model Jasmine Guinness. He married, in 1990, Louise Arundel and the couple have four children: Celeste, Tom, Lily and George.

Through his maternal great-grandfather, the 2nd Duke of Urach, he is a potential claimant to the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Lithuania and to the Principality of Monaco (see Monaco succession crisis of 1918). In 2015 he gave a lecture on Irish history at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.[9]

Partly because of previous family involvements, he is a trustee of the Iveagh Trust social housing provider, and is a former president of the Irish Georgian Society.[10]

Honours[edit]

In September 2010, he became a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem at a ceremony in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. In 2013, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia by Prince David Bagrationi Mukhran Batonishvili, head of the Royal House of Georgia.[11]

On 10 March 2015 the Texas Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Kirk Watson welcoming Guinness to the Texas State Capitol.[12]

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Book on Arthur Guinness, 2008 Archived 14 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Independent comment December 2007
  3. ^ Longue Duree paper
  4. ^ Trinity Alumni magazine 2009
  5. ^ CKAS website
  6. ^ Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (JCKAS) Vol. XIX (2000–2001): 116–50.
  7. ^ JCKAS Vol. XX Part 3 (2012–13) 160–200.
  8. ^ "Mary McAleese and Mary Beard join the line-up for the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival". Archived from the original on 16 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  9. ^ Princess Grace Irish Library lecture Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, monacolife.net. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  10. ^ Irish Georgian Society official website Archived 13 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, igs.ie. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  11. ^ Official website of the Royal House of Georgia Archived 6 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ Senate Bill HR348
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