Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh

An Anglo-Irish aristocrat, Iveagh is the son of Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh, and his wife, Miranda Smiley, and is known to his family and friends as Edward, or Ned, Iveagh.^[2]

Becoming Earl of Iveagh on his father's death on 18 June 1992, when he was aged 23, he was then one of the youngest hereditary peers entitled to sit in the House of Lords, which he regularly attended.^[3] He did not join a political party but sat as a crossbencher.^[2] On 11 November 1999, he was among the majority of the hereditary members who were removed from the Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999.^[3]

On 27 October 2001, Lord Iveagh married the interior designer Clare Hazell at St Andrew's and St Patrick's Church, Elveden, Suffolk.^[4] The couple have two sons, including Arthur, Viscount Elveden (born 2002). They subsequently divorced, and she died of brain cancer in 2025.^[1]

Iveagh lives on the 22,486-acre (91 km²) Elveden Estate in Suffolk, England, which comprises some 2.6% of the county.^[2] The land is occupied as a single arable farm for growing root vegetables, with cereals as a break crop. Approximately 4,000 acres (16 km²) is woodland.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, Iveagh sold his family's Irish home, Farmleigh, and its park, adjacent to the Phoenix Park in Dublin, to the Irish Government for the market price of €29.2m (£18.9m).^[5]

Coat of arms of Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh

Coronet A Coronet of an Earl Crest 1st: A Boar passant quarterly Or and Gules (Magennis); 2nd: On a Pillar Argent encircled by a Ducal Coronet Or an Eagle preying on a Bird's Leg erased proper Escutcheon 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 (Guinness); 2nd and 3rd, Argent on a Fess between three Crescents Sable a Trefoil slipped Or (Lee) Supporters On either side a Stag Gules collared gemel and attired Or each resting a hind hoof upon an Escutcheon Vert charged with a Lion rampant Or Motto Spes Mea In Deo (My hope is in God)