Benjamin Seymour Guinness

Benjamin Seymour Guinness (18 November 1868 – 15 December 1947)[1] was an Irish businessman, banker and lawyer.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1868, into the "banking line" of the Guinness family, Guinness was the fourth son of Richard Seymour Guinness (1826-1915) and a grandson of Robert Rundell Guinness, founder of the Guinness Mahon merchant bank.[2]

He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Navy in 1882.[3] He retired in 1892 with the substantive rank of Lieutenant.[4]

Based in New York, Guinness was a director of the New York Trust Company, Lackawanna Steel Company, Kansas City Southern Railway, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Duquesne Light Company, and United Railroads of San Francisco. He was also a partner in Ladenburg Thalmann.[2]

Guinness married Bridget Williams-Bulkeley (1871-1931), daughter of Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, Bt., and was the father of Loel Guinness.[5] In 1936 he remarried to Donna Maria Nunziante di Mignano (1886–1974), daughter and heiress of the Italian Duke of Mignano, of Castello Monte Mignano. His wife was awarded the titular style of Princess by King Umberto II of Italy, decreed on 22 May 1946.[4][6] The same day, his wife's new title was extended to him and he became a Prince.

Following his death in 1947, his widow and son were involved in a lengthy dispute over his estate.[7]

References

  1. ^ Who's who in Commerce and Industry. Institute for Research in Biography. 1948. p. 631.
  2. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 1695–1696. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  3. ^ The Royal Navy List. Whitherby & Company. 1884. p. 28.
  4. ^ a b Addison, Henry Robert (1947). Who's who. A. & C. Black. p. 1138.
  5. ^ Fowler, Glenn (1989). "Loel Guinness, 82, R.A.F. Flier And a Socialite on 2 Continents". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-19.
  6. ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died. A. & C. Black. 2002. p. 345. ISBN 978-0-7136-6125-5.
  7. ^ "Local tie with Maria Guinness' trial". Daily Mirror. 1954.
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