Arthur Guinness

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. Arthur Guinness was the founder of the Guinness brewery business, an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist. Guinness laid the foundations for Guinness Brewery. At 27, in 1752, Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him 100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000 year lease on the 4-acre brewery at St. James's Gate from Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of 45. Arthur Guinness was born into the Irish Protestant Guinness family, claimed to descend from the Gaelic Magennis clan of County Down... Mehr