Background
A descendant of Guinness brewing family, he was a son of Henry Grattan Guinness, Irish Protestant missionary, originally from Dublin, who worked around the world for 15 years, and his wife Fanny, née Fitzgerald.
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Gershom Guinness
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Education
He was educated at the High School, Launceston, Tasmania. And Leys School, Cambridge.
Career
Bachelor of Arts 1891. Enrolling into Caius college in 1888 to study medicine, he received his M. B. and B. C. there in 1896. Son Henry Whitfield Guinness (April 18, 1908, Kaifeng, Henan, China — February 17, 1996, Pembury, Kent) was a missionary in China. Henry"s son Oswald Guinness became a United States author and Christian apologist.
Daughter Pearl Guinness (1910–1918), her brief life also subject of a book by Geraldine Taylor.
