| Honorific Prefix: | KCEG KLJ |
| Patrick Guinness | |
| Birth Name: | Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness |
| Birth Date: | 8 January 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Language: | Historian |
| Nationality: | British, Irish |
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| Spouse: | Liz Casey |
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| Children: | 5, including Jasmine |
| Parents: | Desmond Guinness Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach |
Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness, KCEG KLJ (born 1 August 1956 in Dublin) is an Anglo-Irish historian and author and one of the heirs of the Guinness business dynasty. Son of Desmond and Mariga Guinness (born 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.
An historian, Patrick Guinness wrote the first biography of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the Guinness Brewery dynasty.[1] [2] He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics.[3] [4] He was a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (2004–2014).[5]
He has produced monographs on the early history of the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick in Kildare, 1758–91;[6] on the depositions from Kildare on the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641;[7] and on the Irish Jacobite ancestry of the Mitford family (privately published). In 2016 he addressed the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival.[8]
His daughter, by his first marriage to Liz Casey, is model Jasmine Guinness. He married, in 1990, Louise Arundel 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 and to the Principality of Monaco (see Monaco succession crisis of 1918). In 2015 he gave a lecture on Irish history at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.[9]
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.[10]
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.[11]
On 10 March 2015 the Texas Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Kirk Watson welcoming Guinness to the Texas State Capitol.[12]