Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun

Arthur Guinness statue created by Thomas Farrell in St. Stephen's Green , Dublin

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, after the death of his father, he was elected 2nd Baronet , of Ashford, and for the first time for the Conservative Party in the British House of Commons , of which he was a member until 1870. Guinness opposed any home rule aspirations and instead advocated the union between Ireland and Great Britain. In 1871 he married Olivia Hedges-White, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bantry . In 1874 he was able to return to the British House of Commons. In 1876 he withdrew from the family business and sold his stake in the brewery to his brother Edward , with whom he had run the company after the death of their father. In 1880 Arthur Guinness was raised to Baron Ardilaun , of Ashford in the County of Galway , after leaving the House of Commons .

Like his father, Guinness campaigned for the restoration and preservation of historical buildings, for example, together with his brother Edward, he had the renovation of Marsh's Library completed under their father .

From 1892 to 1913 he was President of the Royal Dublin Society . Guinness died in Raheny in 1915 and was buried in the local cemetery. Since Guinness had no offspring, the title of Baron Ardilaun expired. The baronetcy that he had inherited from his father passed to his nephew Algernon Arthur St. Lawrence Lee Guinness.

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• Sir Arthur Guinness at Hansard (English)