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                                                                     Richard Samuel Guinness

Richard of Deepwell, Blackrock and 5 Kildare Street, was the son of Richard (Dicky) Guinness (1755-1829), a Dublin barrister and judge and a great nephew of the brewer Arthur Guinness.  He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated BA Vern. 1818.   His wife Mary Darley was descended from that well know family of architects and stone masons.

“universally resented for his airs and affectations, nicknamed ‘Old Pel’ because the stiff, highly starched collars he wore forced his chin up, emphasised his pointed nose and made his strut like a pelican”

His elder brother Robert Rundell Guinness (1789-1857) founded the Guinness Mahon merchant bank in 1836.
Richard was called to the bar at the King's Inns in Dublin and practised as a barrister.  He had a banking partnership with his elder brother Robert which ended in the 1830s.  He then worked as a land agent, trading as "R. Guinness & Co.", but found it difficult in the aftermath of the Irish famine of the 1840s.

His election as MP for the Kinsale division ended abruptly in early 1848.  On a petition by the losing Liberal candidate, W H Watson, a select committee found that Richard's agents' generous hospitality in providing free drinks for the electorate of Kinsale in Kiley's public house amounted to bribery.  While Richard was personally absolved, his election was voided.  He was MP for Barnstaple, Devon 1854 -7
On 25 November 1833 in  France, Richard married Katherine Frances  Jenkinson, a daughter of Sir Charles Jenkinson, 10th Baronet and his wife Katherine Campbell, a daughter of Walter Campbell of Shawfield.  Sir Charles was a cousin of Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister in 1812-27.

They lived at and rebuilt Deepwell House, Blackrock, Dublin.  They had a  second home at 17 Sillwood Place, Brighton, Sussex.
When Richard died in 1857 aged 60 after a long and painful illness, his estate was worth just £100.
His headstone read:
" Sacred to the memory of Richard Samuel Guinness, of Deepwell, Blackrock, who died August 28th, 1857, aged 60 years.  Also Eleanora, his eldest daughter, who died 8th October, 1836, aged 2 years."
 
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