Guinness

Guinness, SIR BENJAMIN LEE, Bart. (1798–1868), was a member of the great brewing firm in Dublin established by Arthur Guinness in 1759. The business, the largest in the world, was made a limited liability company in 1886, with a capital of £6,000,000, employs nearly 3000 persons, and its premises cover 42 acres. Sir Benjamin, M.P. for Dublin in 1865–68, and a baronet from 1867, restored St Patrick's cathedral at his own cost (£140,000). His eldest son, Arthur Edward, became Lord Ardilaun in 1880. His third son, EDWARD CECIL, born 10th November 1847, created a baronet in 1885 and a peer (Baron Iveagh) in 1891, placed in the hands of responsible trustees in 1889 the sum of £250,000, to be spent in providing sanitary dwellings for workmen at a low rent, £200,000 to be given to London and the rest to Dublin. The income derived from the use of the capital sum is to be devoted to the same purpose.