The Right Honourable
The Earl of Iveagh
DL
Member of the House of Lords
In office
18 June 1992 – 11 November 1999
MonarchElizabeth II
Personal details
Born
Arthur Edward Rory Guinness

(1969-07-10) 10 July 1969
County Kildare, Ireland
Political partyNone (crossbencher)
Spouse
Clare Hazell
​
(m. 2001)​
Children2
Residence(s)Elveden Hall, Suffolk, England
OccupationBrewing and farming

Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, DL (born 25 August 1969), styled Viscount Elveden until 1992, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and businessman. Lord Iveagh is a member of the Guinness family.

Biography

An Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Iveagh is the son of the 3rd Earl of Iveagh and his wife, Miranda Smiley, and is known to his family and friends as Edward, or Ned, Iveagh.[1]

Becoming Earl of Iveagh on his father's death on 18 June 1992, when he was aged 23, he was then one of the youngest hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords, which he regularly attended.[2] He did not join a political party but sat as a crossbencher.[1] On 11 November 1999, he was among the majority of the hereditary members who were removed from the Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999.[2]

On 27 October 2001, Lord Iveagh married the interior designer Clare Hazell at St Andrew's and St Patrick's Church, Elveden, Suffolk.[3] The couple have two sons, including Arthur, Viscount Elveden (born 2002).

Iveagh lives on the 22,486-acre (91 km2) Elveden Estate in Suffolk, England, which comprises some 2.6% of the county.[1] The land is occupied as a single arable farm for growing root vegetables, with cereals as a break crop. Approximately 4,000 acres (16 km2) is woodland.

In 1999, Iveagh sold his family's Irish home, Farmleigh and its park, adjacent to the Phoenix Park in Dublin, to the Irish Government for the market price of €29.2m (£18.9m).[4]

Arms

Coat of arms of Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh
Earl of Iveagh
Earl of Iveagh
Coronet
A Coronet of an Earl
Crest
1st: A Boar passant quarterly Or and Gules (Magennis); 2nd: On a Pillar Argent encircled by a Ducal Coronet Or an Eagle preying on a Bird's Leg erased proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Per saltire Gules and Azure a Lion rampant Or on a Chief Ermine a Dexter Hand couped at the wrist of the first (McCartan); 2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Fess between three Crescents Sable a Trefoil slipped Or (Guinness)
Supporters
On either side a Stag Gules collared gemel and attired Or each resting a hind hoof upon an Escutcheon Vert charged with a Lion rampant Or
Motto
Spes Mea In Deo (My hope is in God)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lord Iveagh: The boy from the black stuff". East Anglian Daily Times. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Mr Arthur Guinness (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Starnes, Anna (14 May 2018). "These are the richest people living in and around Cambridgeshire". cambridgenews. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "€52m Farmleigh hosted only two foreign dignitaries in 2009". The Irish Times. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012.
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