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Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , and his then wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its achievements in brewing, ... Hon. Desmond Guinness (1931–2020) Patrick Guinness (born 1958)
Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness (born 1 August 1956 [citation needed] 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, née Princess Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He is a ...
[4] [5] In an open letter to the Irish Times in 1957 Desmond Guinness lamented the lapsing of the older Georgian Society and asked whether anyone would object to him restarting it. [ 6 ] The modern society was hence founded in 1958 by Desmond Guinness and his wife Mariga and since that time, a number of buildings of architectural merit have ...
Mariga Guinness was born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach in London on 21 September 1932. She was the only child of the marriage of Prince Albrecht von Urach, from Lichtenstein Castle, a member of the House of Urach, a morganatic branch of the royal House of Württemberg, and his first wife, Rosemary Blackadder (1901–1975) from Berwickshire in Scotland, a journalist and artist, who were ...
The estate was sold on in parts, with 120 acres (0.49 km 2) held as curtilage around the house, some small quantities retained privately by Desmond Guinness, the forested Crodaun Woods part sold to what became Coillte and around 25 acres (100,000 m 2) acquired over time by Kildare County Council.
Jonathan Bryan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne (born 16 March 1930), is a British peer, businessman and writer. A member of the Guinness family , he is the elder of the two sons of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne , and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
Guinness is the great-granddaughter of Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley), who was one of the Mitford sisters, and her first husband Bryan Guinness, later the 2nd Lord Moyne. Her paternal grandfather, Desmond Guinness , was a conservationist specialising in Georgian and classical architecture, while her paternal grandmother, Mariga Guinness ...