Background
Son of Desmond Guinness and Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He continues his father"s business in real estate development and is a financial analyst.
Son of Desmond Guinness and Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin. He continues his father"s business in real estate development and is a financial analyst.
Trinity College.
He formerly represented Sotheby"s in Ireland. He has lectured on genetic genealogy relating to the early Irish dynasties and Viking Ireland, and has sponsored academic research on Irish genetics. He has produced monographs on the early history of the Friendly Brothers of Street Patrick in Kildare, 1758-1791.
On the depositions from Kildare on the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
And on the Irish Jacobite ancestry of the Mitford family (privately published). He remarried in 1990 to Louise Arundel.
The couple has four children. Through his mother"s grandfather William, second Duke of Urach, he is a potential claimant to the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Kingdom of Lithuania and to the Principality of Monaco (see Monaco Succession Crisis of 1918).
He is also 2259th in line of succession to the British throne.
In 2015 he gave a lecture on Irish history at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. These heirships include that of marquess Rodolphe de Bade, count of Neuchatel (1427-1487) and that of Adrienne d"Estouteville (1512-1560), in her own right heiress of Estouteville in Normandy, who was created 1st Duchess of Estouteville in the peerage of France. Partly because of previous family involvements, he is a trustee of the Iveagh Trust social housing provider, and President of the Irish Georgian Society.
In September 2010, he became a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint
In September 2010, he became a Knight of Justice of the Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem at a ceremony in Saint Patrick"s Cathedral in Dublin. In 2013, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Eagle of Georgia by His Royal Highness Prince David Bagrationi Mukhran Batonishvili, Head of the Royal House of Georgia. On 10 March 2015 the Texas Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Senator Watson welcoming Mr Guinness to the Texas State Capitol.
He was a council member of the County Kildare Archaeological Society (2004-2014) and of the Order of Clans of Ireland.
