Cecil Edward Guinness, CVO 1924-2022

Cecil Edward Guinness, CVO, who died 29 December, 2022, aged 98, was a scion of the eponymous Irish brewing dynasty.

Guinness was educated at the University of Belfast and the School of Brewing, Birmingham University. Edward began his career as a junior brewer in 1945 and rose to become the Director of Guinness and the Vice Chairman of Guinness International. He served as Chairman of the UK Trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh Commonwealth Study Conferences for many years and often remarked that the program had “a profound effect on my future thinking and indeed my life”. Guinness served as a Patron and Director on numerous Boards including the Trustees Queen Elizabeth, Foundation for Disabled People, International School of Creative Art, Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine, Dame Alice Owens School Potters Bar, and the Wine and Spirit Trades Benevolent Society. He was a published author, having penned The Guinness Book of Guinness, Fulmers Fallen (co-author), and A Brewers Tale, Memoirs.

He was born in 1924, son of John Cecil Cope Jenkinson Guinness (1890-1970), and his wife the former Betty Davies (1902-1976); and married in 1951, Elizabeth Thompson, by whom he had three daughters, Charlotte (born 5 Nov, 1955),  Henrietta (born 1957), and Diana (born circa 1962).

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