Social Victorians/People/Iveagh

Also Known As

• Family name: Guinness
• Ned (Edward Cecil) Guinness
• Baronet Guinness, of Castleknock (U.K. peerage, created 27 March 1885)
  • Edward Cecil Guinness (27 March 1885 – 19 January 1891)

• Baron Iveagh of Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 19 January 1891)
  • Edward Cecil Guinness (19 January 1891 – 7 October 1927)

• Viscount Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 18 December 1905)
  • Edward Cecil Guinness (18 December 1905 – 7 October 1927)

• Viscount Elveden (U.K. peerage, created 30 September 1919)
  • Edward Cecil Guinness (30 September 1919 – 7 October 1927)

• Earl of Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 30 September 1919)
  • Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (30 September 1919 – 7 October 1927)

Organizations

Edward Cecil Guinness

• Trinity College, Dublin, BA (1870) and MA (1872)
• Managing Director, Guinness Brewery (1868–1889)
• Chairman, Guinness Brewery (newly a public company; 1886)
• Irish Unionist Alliance, politically the branch of what had been the Liberal Party but broken from Gladstone over Home Rule; Unionists were opposed to Home Rule for Ireland)

The Beerage

• Edward Cecil Guinness, Baron Iveagh
• Arthur Edward Guiness, Baron Ardilaun (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915)
• Samuel Charles Allsopp, 2nd Baron Hindlip of Hindlip and his father, Henry Allsopp, 1st Baron Hindlip
• Michael Arthur Bass, 1st Baron Burton
• Viscount Younger of Leckie
• Baron Daresbury

Timeline

1759, Arthur Guiness founded the Guinness Brewery.

1873 May 20, Edward Cecil Guinness and Adelaide Maria Guinness married.

1891 January 19, Edward Cecil Guinness was created Baron Iveagh.

1897 July 2, Friday, Lord and Lady Iveagh attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House. (Edward Guinness, Lord Iveagh is #382 on the list of people who attended; Lady Adelaide Iveagh is #440.)

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball

Edward Guinness, Lord Iveagh as a gentleman of the time of Louis XIII. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.

Edward Cecil Guiness, Lord Iveagh

At the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball, Edward Cecil Guinness, Lord Iveagh was dressed as a cavalier.

Lafayette's portrait of "Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh as a gentleman of the time of Louis XIII" in costume is photogravure #175 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery. The printing on the portrait says, "Lord Iveagh as a gentleman of the time of Louis XIII."

Newspaper Descriptions of His Costume

• "a cavalier, Louis XIII. period."
• "a Cavalier in mauve and silver with Vandyck collar."
• "representing a Cavalier of Louis XIII. / period, was attired in a doublet of light purple velvet, slashed; the skirts of the doublet being in lappels, three on each side, the two front ones being very long and pointed."
• "Lord Iveagh wore a perfectly lovely Cavalier dress with lovelocks and puce felt hat with green and white feathers. He carried a very long Malacca stick." (42, Col. 2b)
• "(a Cavalier, Louis XIII. period), doublet, light purple velvet, slashed; the sleeves with large slashes from shoulder to wrist; the doublet and slashes edged and embroidered with fine silver embroidery, the whole of the doublet powdered with silver; breeches, light purple silk with silver buttons, seam, and ending in silver bows on the side of the knees; large handsome Vandyke collar and cuffs; boots, buff leather."

Adelaide Guinness, Lady Iveagh

Adelaide Guinness, Lady Iveagh also attended; we know nothing about her costume.

Demographics

• Nationality: Irish, part of an Anglo-Irish family
• Residences
  • Dublin (until the early 20th century?)
  • Elveden Hall, Suffolk

Family

• Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Bt. (1 November 1798 – 19 March 1868)
• Elizabeth Guinness (1813 – 22 September 1865)
  1. Anne Lee Guinness (1839 – 8 November 1889)
  2. Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st and last Baron Ardilaun of Ashford (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915)
  3. Captain Benjamin Lee Guinness (4 August 1842 – 2 February 1900)
  4. Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927)

Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927)

• Dodo (Adelaide Maria) [née] Guinness (1844 – 16 February 1916)

1. Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh (29 March 1874 – 14 September 1967)
2. Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness (2 November 1876 – 22 March 1949)
3. Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne (29 March 1880 – 6 November 1944)