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Ardilaun, Baron (UK, 1880 - 1915)

Creation: let.pat. 1 May 1880

Extinct: 20 Jan 1915

Family name: Guinness

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Arms:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Per saltire Gules and Azure a Lion rampant Or on a Chief Ermine a Dexter Hand couped at the wrist of the first, a Crescent for difference (Guinness);  2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Fess between three Crescents Sable a Trefoil slipped Or (Lee)

Crests:

1st:  A Boar passant quarterly Or and Gules and charged with a Crescent for difference (Guinness);  2nd:  On a Pillar Argent encircled by a Ducal Coronet Or an Eagle preying on a Bird's Leg erased proper (Lee)

Supporters:

On either side a Stag Gules attired and gorged with a Collar Gemel pendent therefrom by a Chain Or an Escutcheon the dexter charged with the Arms of Guinness and the sinister with those of Lee

Motto:

 Spes mea in Deo

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Arthur Edward [Guinness], 1st Baron Ardilaun

1st son and heir of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Bt., by his wife Elizabeth Guinness, 3rd dau. of Edward Guinness, of Dublin

born

1 Nov 1840

mar.

16 Feb 1871 Lady Olivia Charlotte Hedges-White (b. 27 Aug 1850; dsp. 13 Dec 1925), 2nd dau. of William Henry Hare [White later Hedges-White], 3rd Earl of Bantry, by his wife Jane Herbert, 1st dau. of Charles John Herbert, of Muckross Abbey, co. Kerry

died

s.p. 20 Jan 1915

created

1 May 1880 Baron Ardilaun, of Ashford in the County of Galway

note

suc. his father as 2nd Baronet 19 Mar 1868; Member of Parliament (Conservative) for the City of Dublin 1868-69 and 1874-80

On the death of the 1st Baron Ardilaun the Barony of Ardilaun became extinct but the Baronetcy of Ashford, co. Galway, and St Stephen's Green, Dublin, passed to his nephew, Sir Algernon Guinness, 3rd Bt.

 First written 9 Jul 2006

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