Desmond Guinness (1931–2020)
Author of Irish Houses & Castles
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Works by Desmond Guinness
Lucan House 1 copy
The Story of a Nutcracker 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Guinness, The Honorable Desmond Walter
- Birthdate
- 1931-09-08
- Date of death
- 2020-08-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Places of residence
- Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, Ireland
- Education
- Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
Gordonstoun School
University of Oxford (Christ Church) - Occupations
- conservationist
author
architecture writer - Relationships
- Mitford, Diana (mother)
Guinness, Jonathan (brother)
Mosley, Oswald (stepfather)
Mitford, Nancy (aunt)
Devonshire, Deborah (aunt)
Mitford, Jessica (aunt) (show all 11)
Mitford, A. B. (great-grandfather)
Blackwood, Caroline (cousin)
Moyne, Bryan Walter Guinness (father)
Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness (grandfather)
Copeland, Stewart (son-in-law) - Organizations
- Irish Georgian Society(founder)
Iveagh Trust - Short biography
- The Hon. Desmond Guinness was the second son of Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and his first wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley). He was educated at Eton, Gordonstoun and Oxford University. He became a writer on Georgian art and architecture and a conservationist.
In 1958, he and his first wife, Mariga (the former Princess Henriette Marie-Gabrielle von Urach), founded the Irish Georgian Society to help to preserve Irish architecture. The couple bought and started to preserve historic Castletown House, in County Kildare, said to be the finest Palladian house in Ireland. He also bought Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, where he continued to live with his second wife, Penelope Cuthbertson. Guinness also has been a trustee of the Iveagh Trust and the Kildare Street & University Club. He was the grandfather of fashion model Jasmine Guinness.
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