Evening star., 1923-11-06

"
ems Green Park. the magnificent
institutions which they have built
and endowed: the Cathedral of st.
Patrick's. which they have restored
at an enormous expense; the hospitals
which they have set up and main
tain, and then their colossal brew
cries of Dublin stout" which give
profitable employment to SO many
thousands of Dublin citizens-genera-
tions of citizens-f1nally exclaimed,
as he threw up his hands. This is
! really wonderful. The Guinnesses
Seem to run education. salvation and
damnation here. all in one holy show.
Lord Ardilaun likewise purchased
Muckross Abbey in order to prevent
| its getting into wrong hands when
the Herberts of Muckross were
obliged, by financial reverses. to sell
it. and also to please his wife, now
his widow, whose mother, the Count
ess of Bentry, was Miss Jane Herbert,
daughter of Charles John Herbert of
Muckross. AS he left no children. his
peerage became extinct. His bar
enetcy, however which he inherited
from his father. went to the eldest of
his nephews, the first-born of his
second brother. the late Capt Benja-
min Lee-Guinness of the Royal Horse
Guards. This son, now Sir Algernon
Guinness, distinguished himself as
commander of the Royal Naval Re-
serves during the great war and is
still unmarried.
According to Lord Iveagh, who has
h11x
the Guinnesses of today are descended
from the ancient and eminent house
of Magennis, in which was formerly
vested the viscounty of Magennis OF
Iveagh. According to this pamphlet.
the territory of Iveagh. in Dalravie.
! was in early times the appanage Of
the family of Magennis, and in 1880,
when Edmund Mortimer arrived in
/ Ireland as Earl Of March and of Ulster
and various chieftains waited upon
him, there were included among them
Art Magennis, Lord of Iveagh. The
pamphlet even carried the ancestry
| of the Magennises back to Saraam,
who ffourished in Ulster in the third
century of the Christian era The
yiscounty of Magennis Of Iveagh, Gre
! ated by James I at the very begin
; ming of the seventeenth century, is
on official record as having become
| extinct in 1898. There were, however.
| plenty of other members of the Ma
\ d
vive to this day. In 1888 an account
appeared in the Gentleman's Maga-
| zine of London of the trial at Old
! Bailey of a DR.. Daniel Magennis for
killing a hosier in a fit of passion.
The record of the trial added that
| "the son of the unhappy DIR. Magen-
I mis- elder brother taxed the ancient
| title of Viscount Magennis, which is
| not, however, acknowledged by the
house of lords"
f, Lord Iveagh, it would appear, be-
J longs to another branch Of the family,
which, early in the eighteenth CEN
tury, fell into evil days and was re-
| duced to humble circumstances, the
] name of his line having. meanwhile
been transformed from Magennis into
, Guinness. For on the Sd Of August,
1853, the courts of Dublin accorded
probate to the will Of the Most Rev.
Arthur Bryce, Protestant Archbishop
of Cashel. which contained. with
other bequests. the following clause:
Il bequeath to my servant, Richard
Guinness. f100, and to my servant
Arthur Guinness, his son, also f1OO,
on the understanding that they shall
still be in my service at the time Of
my decease."
Arthur Guinness, the younger of
these benef1ciaries of the old arch
bishops will, turned his own legacy
/, and that of his fathers, which he
inherited in due course, to good ac-
count and by thrift and careful in
vestment was able to purchase some
| fifteen years after the prelate's
death the then small st. James Cats
brewery in Dublin. His brewery of
: stout and porter prospered exceed
ingly. and, thanks to it, he became
=, one of the leading merchants Of Dub
| lin. His son. Benjamin. still further
developed the family fortunes and
received a baronetcy in 1867 in recog-
milton of his many philanthropies.
Lord 1veagh Is his only surviving
SON. and was created a baronet on
his own account in 1886, and was
then raised to the peerage In 1891,
, on which occasion he chose for his
title that of the old Magennis family.
namely Lord Of Iveagh. He was an
intimate personal friend Of Edward
VII, who during the last twenty years
Of his life never failed to spend week
at Elveden Hall in Suffolkshire, an
estate famed for its unrivaled game
preserve. King George has cont!n-
ued his fathers practice and never
| fails to put in a week each autumn
as L.rd lveagh's guest at ~ den,
40. .ns Sdae y. "a sic .t.nS.