Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh

Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh (born 25 August 1969), styled Viscount Elveden until 1992, is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and businessman. Lord Iveagh is a member of the Guinness family.

Biography 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.

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. He did not join a political party but sat as a crossbencher. The couple have two sons, including Arthur, Viscount Elveden (born 2002). They subsequently divorced, and she died of brain cancer in 2025.

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