Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness (born 1 August 1956) is an

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historian and author and one of the heirs of the

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business dynasty. Son of Desmond and Mariga Guinness, ''née'' Princess Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at

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and

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

. He is a financial analyst. He is a former representative of

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in Ireland.

Historian

An historian, Patrick Guinness, member of the

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, wrote the first biography of

Arthur Guinness Arthur Guinness ( 172523 January 1803) was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness beer, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759. Guinness was born in Ardclogh, near Celbridge, County Ki ...

, the founder of the

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dynasty. He has lectured on

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relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics. He was a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (2004–2014). He has produced monographs on the early history of the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick in Kildare, 1758–91; on the depositions from Kildare on the outbreak of the

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; and on the Irish Jacobite ancestry of the

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(privately published). In 2016, he addressed the FT Weekend

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Family

His daughter, by his first marriage to Liz Casey, is the model

Jasmine Guinness Jasmine Leonora Guinness (born 28 September 1976) is an Irish designer and a fashion model active since 1994. She is a member of Anglo-Irish brewing Guinness family. Personal life She is the daughter of Patrick Guinness and Liz Casey. She was ...

. He married Louise Arundel in 1990, and the couple have four children: Celeste, Tom, Lily, and George. Through his maternal great-grandfather, the 2nd

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, he is a potential claimant to the medieval

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, the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the

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(see

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) and to the title of

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. In 2015, he gave a lecture on Irish history at the

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in Monaco. Partly because of previous family involvements, he is a trustee of the

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social housing provider and is a former president of the

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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. On 10 March 2015, the

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passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Kirk Watson welcoming Guinness to the

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.Senate Bill HR348

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guinness, Patrick 1956 births Living people Irish male non-fiction writers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Trinity College Dublin

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Writers from Dublin (city)