Richard Samuel Guinness

Richard Samuel Guinness (7 June 1797 – 27 August 1857) was an Irish lawyer and a Member of Parliament. Parents Guinness was one of the sons 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 great-nephew of the brewer Arthur Guinness. His elder brother Robert Rundell Guinness (1789-1857) founded the Guinness Mahon merchant bank in 1836. Career Guinness was called to the bar at the King's Inns in Dublin and practised as a barrister. He was also a banker in partnership with his elder brother Robert, but this was dissolved in the 1830s. He then worked as a land agent, trading as "R. Guinness & Co.", but found it difficult in the aftermath of the Irish famine of the 1840s.