(Arguably the most fascinating family saga of the past two...)
Arguably the most fascinating family saga of the past two centuries, the story of how the Guinnesses rose from obscurity to become a household name and one of the wealthiest dynasties ever is told here for the first time.The story spans 250 years, from the founder of the family, an Anglo-Irish rent collector, down to the present generation of Guinnesses, headed by the 3rd Earl of Iveagh. It tells not one saga but three: that of the Lee Guinnesses who created the world s biggest brewery, the Rundell Guinnesses whose merchant banking empire now straddles the globe, and the Grattan Guinnesses whose adventurous, sometimes hair- raising careers as evangelical missionaries in the 19th century provide one of the least publicized but in many ways most colourful chapters of the Guinness story.It is a story of spectacular achievement and heartbreaking tragedy, an intimate study of Guinnesses ranging from the glamorous heiresses who took Society by storm to a topless showgirl in Las Vegas, from a Knight of the Garter to a hopeless alcoholic, from a Minister of State to a racing driver, from a Wall Street tycoon to an Australian sheep farmer.The book is handsomely illustrated with photographs and genealogical charts.
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Mullally"s journalism career began in India where, from 1937 to 1949, he was sub-editor on The Statesman of Calcutta, then editor of the Sunday Standard of Bombay. From 1950 to 1955, he headed the public relations firm of Mullally & Warner, with clients ranging from Audrey Hepburn and Frank Sinatra to Douglas Fairbanks, Junior., Paul Getty, Frankie Laine, the Festival Ballet and Picture Post. Others included; Vera Lynn, Yvonne De Carlo, Guy Mitchell, Sonja Henie, Lincolnshire Renaud, Johnnie Ray, Jo Stafford, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and the Oxford University Press and its counterpart, Cambridge University Press, as well as the Hulton Press.
Mullally"s first novel was the 1958 world best-seller Danse Macabre.
This was followed by eleven more titles. His semi-autobiographical novel Clancy was dramatised by British Broadcasting Corporation television in five one-hour episodes in 1975 and 1977 under the title Looking for Clancy, starring Robert Powell and Keith Drinkel.
Between books, Mullally compiled and wrote with the collaboration with the British Broadcasting Corporation an album, The Sounds of Time a dramatised history of Britain (1933-1945) and the long running Penthouse magazine"s strip cartoon "Oh Wicked Wanda!". In 1949 he abandoned a prospective candidature of the Labour Party for the parliamentary constituency of Finchley and Friern Barnet.
Late in his life he contributed occasional freelance journalism.
He died in 2014 at the age of 96.
(Arguably the most fascinating family saga of the past two...)
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(Book by Frederic Mullally)
Back in London he worked as a sub-editor of The Financial News, as co-editor of the weekly Tribune, and finally as political editor and columnist of the Sunday Pictorial. In 1956 he was the only person to receive an interview with the newly married Prince Rainier of Monaco and his new wife, Grace Kelly, then on their honeymoon on the Prince"s yacht while anchored off the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, a request granted to Mullally as, apart from being a resident of the island himself, he had been the only one of a pack of journalists to show appropriate respect for the feelings of the couple on their special occasion. Fascism Inside England (1946).