Earl of Iveagh

{{short description|Earldom in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}

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{{Infobox nobility title

| name = Earldom of Iveagh

| image = File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg File:Arms of Guinness, Earl of Iveagh.svg

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| caption = 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, a Crescent for difference (for Guinness); 2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Fess between three Crescents Sable a Trefoil slipped Or (for Lee){{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor-last= Mosley |editor-first= Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=2066 |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}

| creation_date = 30 September 1919

| creation = First

| monarch = King George V

| peerage = Peerage of the United Kingdom

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| first_holder = Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh

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| present_holder = Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh

| heir_apparent = Arthur Guinness, Viscount Elveden

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| remainder_to = the 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten

| subsidiary_titles = Viscount Elveden

| status = Extant

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| family_seat = Elveden Hall

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| motto = Spes mea in Deo ("My hope lies in God")

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Earl of Iveagh (pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|v|i}} {{respell|EYE|vee}}—especially in Dublin—or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|aɪ|v|ɑː}} {{respell|EYE|vah}}[http://www.hidden-dublin.com/foot/foot10.html Arthur Guinness and Dublin's Iveagh legacy]. Retrieved 2012-01-11.[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/pronoun.html Pronunciation of Surnames], from the book Enquire Within Upon Everything. 119th Edition, March 1939. Retrieved 2012-01-11.) is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1919 for the businessman and philanthropist Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh.{{London Gazette |issue=31610 |date=21 October 1919 |page=12889}} He was the third son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, of Ashford, and the great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness brewery.

Guinness had already been created a baronet, of Castle Knock in the County of Dublin, in 1885.{{London Gazette |issue=25473 |date=22 May 1885 |page=2420}} He was subsequently made Baron Iveagh, of Iveagh in the County of Down, in 1891,{{London Gazette |issue=26126 |date=20 January 1891 |page=360}} then Viscount Iveagh, of Iveagh in the County of Down, in 1905,{{London Gazette |issue=27865 |date=19 December 1905 |page=9084}} and was made Viscount Elveden, of Elveden in the County of Suffolk, at the same time that he was given the earldom in 1919. All titles are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

As of 2015, the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the fourth Earl, who succeeded his father in 1992.

The Conservative politician Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, was the third son of the first Earl.

The family seat is Elveden Hall, near Elveden, Suffolk, formerly residence of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, purchased by the first earl in 1894.{{cite book|last1=Bryant|first1=Julius|title=Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest|date=2003|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300102062|page=370|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DAjHamKGor0C&pg=PA370|access-date=2 August 2017|language=en}}