Background
Lord Iveagh (often popularly known as Benjamin Iveagh) was born into the Anglo-Irish Guinness family, being the son of Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden, and Elizabeth Cecilia Hare.
Lord Iveagh (often popularly known as Benjamin Iveagh) was born into the Anglo-Irish Guinness family, being the son of Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden, and Elizabeth Cecilia Hare.
He was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of Grenoble.
The Rt. Honorary He lived at Farmleigh in the Phoenix Park in Dublin and was chairman of Guinness 1961–1992. He was a trustee of two charitable housing associations, the Iveagh Trust in Dublin and the Guinness Trust in London. He was in the British House of Lords in 1967-1992, and was appointed an Irish Senator by Liam Cosgrave in 1973-1977.
Lord Iveagh married Miranda Daphne Jane Smiley, daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, on 12 March 1963.
They had four children, but were divorced in 1984. Lord Iveagh died of cancer in Kensington and Chelsea, London, in 1992 at the age of 55.
Uniquely at the time, he was a member of two upper houses simultaneously.