Edward Cecil Guinness

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Edward Cecil Guinness was a prominent Irish brewer and philanthropist from the Guinness family, best known for expanding the Guinness brewery and for his extensive charitable donations.

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Edward Cecil Guinness canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish peer
brewer
businessperson
human
philanthropist
associatedWith St. James’s Gate Brewery
surface form: St. James's Gate Brewery
birthCountry Ireland
birthDate 1847-11-10
birthPlace Dublin
burialPlace Elveden Hall
surface form: Elveden, Suffolk
child Arthur Ernest Guinness
Rupert Guinness
Walter Edward Guinness
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
deathDate 1927-10-07
elevatedToPeerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
surface form: United Kingdom peerage
employer Arthur Guinness & Son
familyName Guinness
founded Guinness Trust
fullName Edward Cecil Guinness self-link
givenName Edward
honorificPrefix The Right Honourable
industry brewing industry
knownFor expanding Guinness brewery production and exports
large-scale philanthropy in Ireland and the United Kingdom
memberOf Guinness family
nobleTitle Baron Iveagh
Earl of Iveagh
Viscount Iveagh
notableDonation endowments for university education
funding for medical research and hospitals
notableProject Guinness Trust for housing the poor
notableWork expansion of the Guinness brewery at St. James's Gate
occupation brewer
business executive
philanthropist
parliamentaryRole member of the House of Lords
philanthropicFocus education
housing for the poor
public health
positionHeld chairman of Guinness brewery
head of Guinness brewery
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
residence Dublin
London, England
surface form: London
spouse Adelaide Guinness
title 1st Earl of Iveagh
wealthSource Guinness brewery profits

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Subject: Edward Cecil Guinness
Description of subject: Edward Cecil Guinness was a prominent Irish brewer and philanthropist from the Guinness family, best known for expanding the Guinness brewery and for his extensive charitable donations.

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iveagh Bequest hasDonor Edward Cecil Guinness
Iveagh Bequest donatedBy Edward Cecil Guinness
Edward Cecil Guinness fullName Edward Cecil Guinness self-link