Arthur Guinness

Arthur Guinness (September 24, 1725 – January 23, 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family. Image File history File links Arthur_Guinness. ... Image File history File links Arthur_Guinness. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Guinness logo World War II era advert. ... The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic Irish family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking and diplomacy. ...

Family

He was born in Celbridge, County Kildare, the son of an Anglican land steward. His family claimed descent from the Magennis clan of County Down in the 1600s, but this could not be proved either way. His father worked for the Archbishop of Cashel, Dr. Arthur Price, and may have brewed beer for the other workers on the estate. In his will, Dr. Price left £100 each to the Guinnesses. He married Olivia Whitmore in 1761, and they had 21 children, 10 of whom lived to adulthood. From 1764 they lived at Beaumont House, now part of Beaumont Hospital, between Santry and Raheny in north County Dublin (now Fingal). Three of his sons were also brewers, and his other descendants eventually included missionaries, politicians and authors. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Naas Code: KE Area: 1,693 km² Population (2006) 186,075 Website: www. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Downpatrick Area: 2,448 km² Population (est. ... Cashel is one of the four Archdioceses in Ireland. ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Santry is a bustling mixed class suburb on the Northern side of Dublin. ... Raheny (Ráth Éanna in Irish) is a quiet northern suburb of Dublin, the capital city of the Republic of Ireland. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Swords Code: D (FL proposed) Area: 448. ...

Brewer of porter

Arthur leased a brewery in Leixlip in 1755, brewing ale. Five years later he left his younger brother in charge of that enterprise and moved on to another in St. James' Gate, Dublin, at the end of 1759. By 1767 he was the master of the Dublin Corporation of Brewers. His first actual sales of porter (beer) were listed on tax (excise) data from 1778, and it seems that other Dublin brewers had experimented in brewing porter beer from the 1760s. His major achievement was in expanding his brewery in 1797-99. Thereafter he brewed only porter and employed members of the Purser family who had brewed porter in London from the 1770s. The Pursers became partners in the brewery for most of the 1800s. By his death in 1803 the annual brewery output was over 20,000 barrels. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... For other uses, see Ale (disambiguation). ... St. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Żywiec Porter Porter is a style of beer in the ale family which has a dark colour. ...

Politics

He was a supporter of the patriot Henry Grattan in the 1780s and 1790s, not least because Grattan wanted to reduce the tax on beer. He was a brewers' representative on Dublin Corporation from the 1760s until his death. Like Grattan, he was publicly in favour of Catholic Emancipation from 1793, but was not a supporter of the United Irish during the 1798 rebellion. Henry Grattan (July 3, 1746 - June 6, 1820) was a member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century. ... Dublin Corporation is the former name given to the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin between the twelfth century and 1 January 2002. ... Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. ... (Redirected from 1798 rebellion) The Irish Rebellion of 1798 or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British establishment in Ireland. ...

He was buried at his mother's family plot at Oughter Ard in County Kildare in January 1803. Uachtar Árd or Oughter Ard in the English language is an ecclesiastical site and graveyard, burial place in 1803 of Arthur Guinness, and former parish, borough and royal manor in County Kildare, nowadays part of the community of Ardclough close to the Dublin border. ...

Noteworthy descendants

• grandson Henry Grattan Guinness
• great-grand daughter Mary Geraldine Guinness
• great-great-grandson Os Guinness

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References

• D. Wilson, Dark and Light (Weidenfeld, London 1998). ISBN 0-297-81718-3
• M. Guinness, The Guinness Spirit (Hodder, London 1999) ISBN 0-340-72165-0
• Archives at St. James's Gate Brewery.

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External link

• Sir Arthur Guinness' Biography