Arthur Ernest Guinness (2 November 1876 – 22 March 1949) was an Irish engineer and a senior member of the

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. He usually went by the name of Ernest.

Family

Ernest was the second son of brewing magnate

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Anglo-Irish Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, ...

and his wife Adelaide. On 15 July 1903 he married Marie Clothilde Russell, the daughter of

Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet (23 August 1828 – 7 March 1898) was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898. Russell was the third son of Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Baronet and his wife Ma ...

, and his wife Charlotte. Ernest and Marie Clothilde had: * Aileen (1904–99), who married the Hon. Brinsley Plunket; * Maureen (1907–98), the wife of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, whose children included the author

Caroline Blackwood Lady Caroline Blackwood (16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was an English writer, and the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness. Active in the literary world through her journalism an ...

; * Oonagh (1910–95), the wife of the Hon. Philip Kindersley, and then of Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, whose children included Garech Browne and Tara Browne.

Career

Ernest was seen as the modernising technical expert among the Guinness family directors at

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from 1900 to the 1930s, until he was seriously injured in a motorboat accident at sea in Killary lough. A keen motorist, he bought a custom-built V16 Cadillac, from Mayfair dealer Lendrum & Hartman Limited which was exhibited at 1930 London Motor Show. In 1934 he was involved in building a new brewery at

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in the suburbs of London. In 1923 he bought the "Fantome II", a 3-masted barque. He was educated at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

, served with the London Rifle Brigade and as a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the peace for

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.''Burke's Peerage'' 2003, vol 2, page 2066

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guinness, Arthur Ernest 1876 births 1949 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge

Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People * Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *Ernest, ...

Engineers from Dublin (city) Irish brewers Younger sons of earls London Rifle Brigade officers