Robert Rundell Guinness
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Robert Rundell Guinness | |
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| Born | 12 December 1789 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 7 March 1857 (aged 67) London, England |
| Occupation | Banker |
Robert Rundell Guinness (12 December 1789 – 7 March 1857[1]) was an Anglo-Irish banker, most noted for co-founding the Guinness Mahon bank in 1836.
The grandson of Dublin goldbeater Samuel Guinness (1727–1795), he is the first of the "banking line" in the Guinness family.
Robert was the son of Richard Guinness (1755–1829), a Dublin barrister and judge, and his wife Mary Darley, descended from a well-known Dublin house-building family. He was a grand-nephew of the brewer Arthur Guinness, and the elder brother of Richard Samuel Guinness MP.
He married firstly, Mary Anne Seymour in November 1822, who died in 1837 at their home in Stillorgan, County Dublin. She was descended from an Irish branch of the family of the Duke of Somerset. They had three children:
- Mary Catherine (1823–1905), who married Sir Samuel Ferguson
- Richard Seymour (1826–1915), a banker with Guinness Mahon from 1841, and father of Benjamin Seymour Guinness
- Henry (1829–93), a banker with Guinness Mahon from 1851
He remarried to Mary Anne Moore in June 1840, and they had 7 children, including
- Revd Robert Guinness (1841-1918)
- 6 daughters who died childless.
His grandson Henry Guinness became an Irish senator in 1922. His granddaughter Lucy Guinness was the wife of the painter Philip de László.