Social Victorians/People/Iveagh

Also Known As

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  • Family name: Guinness
  • Ned (Edward Cecil) Guinness
  • Baronet Guinness, of Castleknock (U.K. peerage, created 27 March 1885)[1]
    • Edward Cecil Guinness (27 March 1885 – 19 January 1891)[2]
  • Baron Iveagh of Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 19 January 1891)[1]
    • Edward Cecil Guinness (19 January 1891 – 7 October 1927)[2]
  • Viscount Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 18 December 1905)[1]
    • Edward Cecil Guinness (18 December 1905 – 7 October 1927)[2]
  • Viscount Elveden (U.K. peerage, created 30 September 1919)[1]
    • Edward Cecil Guinness (30 September 1919 – 7 October 1927)[2]
  • Earl of Iveagh (U.K. peerage, created 30 September 1919)[1]
    • Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (30 September 1919 – 7 October 1927)[2]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Organizations

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Edward Cecil Guinness

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  • Trinity College, Dublin, BA (1870) and MA (1872)[2]
  • Managing Director, Guinness Brewery (1868–1889)[3]
  • Chairman, Guinness Brewery (newly a public company; 1886)[3]
  • Irish Unionist Alliance,[4] 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[5]

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  • Edward Cecil Guinness, Baron Iveagh
  • Arthur Edward Guiness, Baron Ardilaun (1 November 1840 – 20 January 1915[6])
  • 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

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1759, Arthur Guiness founded the Guinness Brewery.[7]

1873 May 20, Edward Cecil Guinness and Adelaide Maria Guinness married.[8]

1891 January 19, Edward Cecil Guinness was created Baron Iveagh.[9]:200

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

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

Edward Cecil Guiness, Lord Iveagh

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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.[10] The printing on the portrait says, "Lord Iveagh as a gentleman of the time of Louis XIII."[11]

Newspaper Descriptions of His Costume

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  • "a cavalier, Louis XIII. period."[12]
  • "a Cavalier in mauve and silver with Vandyck collar."[13]:p. 5, Col. 7c
  • "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."[14]:p. 3, Col. 4c–5a
  • "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."[15] (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."[16]:p. 41, Col. 2b

Adelaide Guinness, Lady Iveagh

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

Demographics

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  • Nationality: Irish, part of an Anglo-Irish family[3]
  • Residences
    • Dublin (until the early 20th century?)
    • Elveden Hall, Suffolk[4]

Family

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  • Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Bt. (1 November 1798 – 19 March 1868)[17]
  • Elizabeth Guinness (1813 – 22 September 1865)[18]
    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)[2]

  • Dodo[3] (Adelaide Maria) [née] Guinness (1844 – 16 February 1916)[8]
  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)

Relations

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Memoirs and Archives

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Notes and Questions

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Footnotes

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Earl of Iveagh". Wikipedia. 2021-11-30. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Earl_of_Iveagh&oldid=1057977473.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Iveagh.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-06-04. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3016.htm#i30158.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh". Wikipedia. 2021-05-09. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Guinness,_1st_Earl_of_Iveagh&oldid=1022289901.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinness,_1st_Earl_of_Iveagh.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Ferriter, Diarmaid. “Guinness, Edward Cecil.” Dictionary of Irish Biography. 2009. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.003680.v1.
  5. "Beerage". Wikipedia. 2021-08-12. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beerage&oldid=1038361697.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerage.
  6. "Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun". Wikipedia. 2021-05-22. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Guinness,_1st_Baron_Ardilaun&oldid=1024426488.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness,_1st_Baron_Ardilaun.
  7. "Guinness family". Wikipedia. 2021-03-31. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guinness_family&oldid=1015241736.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_family.
  8. 8.0 8.1 " Adelaide Maria Guinness." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-06-04. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3016.htm#i30159.
  9. Cannadine, David. The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. New York: Yale University Press, 1990.
  10. "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  11. "Lord Iveagh." Diamond Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball. National Portrait Gallery. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw158538/Edward-Cecil-Guinness-1st-Earl-of-Iveagh-as-a-gentleman-of-the-time-of-Louis-XIII.
  12. "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  13. "Duchess of Devonshire's Fancy Ball. A Brilliant Spectacle. Some of the Dresses." London Daily News Saturday 3 July 1897: 5 [of 10], Col. 6a–6, Col. 1b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18970703/024/0005 and https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000051/18970703/024/0006.
  14. “The Ball at Devonshire House. Magnificent Spectacle. Description of the Dresses.” London Evening Standard 3 July 1897 Saturday: 3 [of 12], Cols. 1a–5b [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18970703/015/0004.
  15. “Girls’ Gossip.” Truth 8 July 1897, Thursday: 41 [of 70], Col. 1b – 42, Col. 2c. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002961/18970708/089/0041.
  16. “The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball.” The Gentlewoman 10 July 1897 Saturday: 32–42 [of 76], Cols. 1a–3c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970710/155/0032.
  17. "Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Bt.." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3017.htm#i30163.
  18. "Elizabeth Guinness." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2024-04-29. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3017.htm#i30164.