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The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the
dry stoutGuinness Beer.[2] The founder of the dynasty,
Arthur Guinness, is confirmed to have had
McCartan origins.[3] Beginning in the late 18th century, they became a prominent part of what is known in Ireland as '
the Ascendancy'.[4][additional citation(s) needed]
Four members of the family in succession held the
UK Parliament constituency of
Southend, which became popularly known as "Guinness-on-Sea".
The "banking line" Guinnesses all descend from Arthur's brother Samuel (1727–1795) who set up as a
goldbeater in Dublin in 1750; his son Richard (1755–1830), a Dublin barrister; and Richard's son
Robert Rundell Guinness who founded
Guinness Mahon in 1836.[5]
Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930); married firstly Ingrid Olivia Georgia Wyndham in 1951, secondly Suzanne Lisney in 1964, and had three children with Susan Mary Taylor
George Fisher (1919-1943), R.A.F. pilot, killed in action in the Mediterranean theater in late 1943 at age 24[6]: 397
Katie Fisher (1921–1921), died in infancy after surgery to remove a pebble from her lung (she inhaled it after an accident in which her toddler brother George poured pebbles in her mouth at the beach)[6]: 98
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's
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The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry. The brewing branch is particularly well known among the general public for producing the
dry stoutGuinness Beer.[2] The founder of the dynasty,
Arthur Guinness, is confirmed to have had
McCartan origins.[3] Beginning in the late 18th century, they became a prominent part of what is known in Ireland as '
the Ascendancy'.[4][additional citation(s) needed]
Four members of the family in succession held the
UK Parliament constituency of
Southend, which became popularly known as "Guinness-on-Sea".
The "banking line" Guinnesses all descend from Arthur's brother Samuel (1727–1795) who set up as a
goldbeater in Dublin in 1750; his son Richard (1755–1830), a Dublin barrister; and Richard's son
Robert Rundell Guinness who founded
Guinness Mahon in 1836.[5]
Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 1930); married firstly Ingrid Olivia Georgia Wyndham in 1951, secondly Suzanne Lisney in 1964, and had three children with Susan Mary Taylor
George Fisher (1919-1943), R.A.F. pilot, killed in action in the Mediterranean theater in late 1943 at age 24[6]: 397
Katie Fisher (1921–1921), died in infancy after surgery to remove a pebble from her lung (she inhaled it after an accident in which her toddler brother George poured pebbles in her mouth at the beach)[6]: 98