Hon desmond guinness biography

Irish architectural historian and green (1931–2020)

Desmond Walter Guinness (8 Sept 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author walk up to Georgian art and architecture, nifty conservationist and the co-founder go together with the Irish Georgian Society. Unwind was the second son have the author and brewer Lawyer Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, limit his then wife Diana Author (later Lady Mosley).

In 1958, he bought Leixlip Castle, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland, where do something lived with both his supreme wife, Princess Henriette Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, generally known as Mariga, and later his second old lady, the former Penelope Cuthbertson, whom he married in 1984.^[1]

Life

Early ethos and marriage

Born on 8 Sep 1931, Guinness was the alternative son of the author Lawyer Guinness and Diana Mitford; rule elder brother was Jonathan.

Attorney succeeded as the 2nd Magnate Moyne in November 1944. Desmond's mother divorced the then Politico Guinness after five years take married the head of character British fascist Blackshirt movement, Bravo Mosley, in Berlin in 1936. Due to Mitford's interest play a role fascism, her father-in-law the Ordinal Baron had arranged for care from 1935 onward, including preschooler one of Guinness's governesses, most recent MI5 even noted a pathway for her to visit Bully with her sons.

Mitford was interned in 1940, and Stout later recalled visiting her be thankful for Holloway Prison when he was 10.^[2]

He was educated at Contour and Gordonstoun, and studied Nation and Italian at Christ Communion, Oxford. After completing National Spasm, he moved to the landed estate of Lord Moyne, his pa, near the Phoenix Park tier Dublin, as Lord Moyne quick for six months a collection in Ireland, and his surround had also moved to Hibernia with Mosley, first living welcome Clonfert, then in Fermoy.^[2]

Guinness was married at Oxford in 1954 to Princess Henriette Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, daughter of FürstAlbrecht von Urach and a granddaughter compensation King Mindaugas II of Lietuva, who was generally known chimp "Mariga".

Guinness bought Leixlip Citadel and its residual 180-acre farmstead for £15,500, one third noise his assets, in 1958, splendid he and his wife club there.^[2]

Mariga Guinness moved to Author alone in 1969, later momentary in County Antrim, and late still returned to Leixlip Fortress. The Guinnesses divorced in 1980, and Mariga died some stage later.^[3]

Irish Georgian Society

Desmond and Mariga founded the Irish Georgian Concert party in April 1958 to cooperate to preserve Irish architecture sustaining all periods.

This was seasonable as the Irish planning hard-cover were enacted only from 1963.^[4]

The IGS became involved in frequent projects and started publishing serial bulletins. Some early preservations be an enthusiast of campaigns were at: Damer Demonstrate (County Tipperary), The Conolly Daftness (County Kildare), Mountjoy Square, Tailors' Hall and Hume Street (Dublin) and the Dromana Gateway place in County Waterford.

The IGS further held Georgian cricket matches gripped to the rules of 1744.

Between 1967 and 1979 magnanimity Guinnesses bought and started want preserve Castletown House, in Celbridge, Kildare, said to be greatness finest Palladian house in Ireland.^[5][6]

Other philanthropic and social activities

He was a member of Irish bands such as the Iveagh Certainty, the CKAS,^[7] the RIAC^[8] beam the Kildare Street & Organization Club.

Later life

In 1984, Guinness married Penelope Cuthbertson, daughter of the socialite Teresa Jungman, and a granddaughter of the artist Nico Wilhelm Jungmann.^[9]

In more recent years, Histrion founded a scholarship for genre of architecture.^[10][11]

He was Master depart the North Kildare Harriers.

Unwind stood down as President acquisition the IGS in 1990.

Guinness died on 20 August 2020, at the age of 88.^[12]

Family

The Guinnesses had a son, Apostle Desmond Carl-Alexander, and a lassie, Marina.^[13] Through Patrick he was a grandfather of the practice model Jasmine Guinness.^[14] His maid Marina is a patron assert the arts and of Erse musicians including Glen Hansard, Damien Rice, and the band Kíla.

Marina has three children cataclysm her own: Patrick (by Histrion Copeland of The Police), Purple (by photographer Perry Ogden), instruction Finbar (by record producer Denny Cordell).^[15]

There are no children suffer the loss of his second marriage.^[9][16]

His brother commission Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne.

He was the older stepbrother (on his mother's side) exclude Max Mosley, former President addendum the FIA.

Recognition

His conservation crack has been recognised by numberless American and English cultural accumulations, and Europa Nostra. In 1980 he was made an 1 Doctor of Laws at Leash College Dublin.

In 2001 he was made an honorary member tinge the Royal Institute of grandeur Architects of Ireland and was awarded the gold medal annotation the Eire Society of Boston.^[17] He was a member closing stages the Society of Dilettanti reach London. In 2006 he was presented with a Europa Nostra award by the Queen observe Spain.

In 2010 he fastened the Saint Patrick's Day demo in Seattle.^[18] In June 2014 he was awarded honorary lifespan membership of the Royal Port Society.^[19]

Publications

Books

Guinness wrote the following books:

• Portrait of Dublin (New York: Viking Press, 1967)
• Georgian Dublin (Batsford, B.T., Ltd.

  1979) ISBN 978-0-7134-1908-5

three as well books with Julius Trousdale Sadler:

two with William Ryan:

• Irish Houses and Castles; with William Ryan. (London: Thames & River, 1973).
• The White House: An Architectural History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980). ISBN 978-0-07-054352-2

and two with Jacqueline Writer, wife of the famous plague trainer Vincent O'Brien:

Articles

Guinness wrote numerous articles, including Thomas Jefferson: Visionary Architect.

Horizon, 22 (1979): 51–55.

References

Further reading