Patrick Guinness

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Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach

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Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness (born 1 August 1956{{fact|date=January 2023}}) is an Anglo-Irish historian and author and one of the heirs of the Guinness business dynasty. Son of Desmond and Mariga Guinness, née Princess Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He is a financial analyst. He is a former representative of Sotheby's in Ireland.

Historian

An historian, Patrick Guinness, member of the Guinness family, wrote the first biography of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness Brewery dynasty.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071114223625/http://www.peterowen.com/pages/nonfic/Guinness.htm Book on Arthur Guinness, 2008]}}[http://www.independent.ie/national-news/guinness-familys-origins-smaller-beer-than-thought-1248581.html Independent comment December 2007] He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics.[http://www.cell.com/AJHG/abstract/S0002-9297(07)62721-9 Longue Duree paper][http://www.tcd.ie/alumni/news/trinitytoday/index.php?sm=NTQ3MkLp7jj1djUSNQT2Hg_3d_3d Trinity Alumni magazine 2009] He was a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (2004–2014).[http://www.kildarearchsoc.ie/ CKAS website]

He has produced monographs on the early history of the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick in Kildare, 1758–91;Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (JCKAS) Vol. XIX (2000–2001): 116–50. on the depositions from Kildare on the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641;JCKAS Vol. XX Part 3 (2012–13) 160–200. and on the Irish Jacobite ancestry of the Mitford family (privately published). In 2016, he addressed the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/announcements/mary-mcaleese-and-mary-beard-join-the-line-up-for-the-ft-weekend-oxford-literary-festival |title=Mary McAleese and Mary Beard join the line-up for the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival |access-date=21 May 2019 |archive-date=16 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516100825/http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/announcements/mary-mcaleese-and-mary-beard-join-the-line-up-for-the-ft-weekend-oxford-literary-festival |url-status=dead }}

Family

His daughter, by his first marriage to Liz Casey, is the model Jasmine Guinness. He married Louise Arundel in 1990, and the couple have four children: Celeste, Tom, Lily, and George.

Through his maternal great-grandfather, the 2nd Duke of Urach, he is a potential claimant to the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the Principality of Monaco (see Monaco succession crisis of 1918) and to the title of Duke of Estouteville.{{Verification needed|date=June 2025}} In 2015, he gave a lecture on Irish history at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.[http://www.monacolife.net/index.php/favicon.ico?action=show&id=3934 Princess Grace Irish Library lecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133711/http://www.monacolife.net/index.php/favicon.ico?action=show&id=3934 |date=2 April 2015 }}, monacolife.net. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

Partly because of previous family involvements, he is a trustee of the Iveagh Trust social housing provider and is a former president of the Irish Georgian Society.[http://www.igs.ie/About-Us/News.aspx Irish Georgian Society official website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213083940/http://www.igs.ie/About-Us/News.aspx |date=13 February 2012 }}, igs.ie. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

Honours

In September 2010, he became a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem at a ceremony in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. In 2013, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia by Prince David Bagrationi Mukhran Batonishvili, head of the Royal House of Georgia.[http://www.royalhouseofgeorgia.ge/news/Offical-Events/ROYAL-VISIT-TO-DUBLIN:-HRH-THE-PRINCE-DAVID-PRESENTS-HONOURS-TO-IRISH-SUPPORTERS- Official website of the Royal House of Georgia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006085806/http://www.royalhouseofgeorgia.ge/news/Offical-Events/ROYAL-VISIT-TO-DUBLIN%3A-HRH-THE-PRINCE-DAVID-PRESENTS-HONOURS-TO-IRISH-SUPPORTERS- |date=6 October 2015 }}

On 10 March 2015, the Texas Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Kirk Watson welcoming Guinness to the Texas State Capitol.Senate Bill HR348