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Rupert Edward Cecil Lee Guinness

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 29 March 1874

Died: 14 September 1967

Peerages

Viscount Elveden - 30 September 1919

2nd Earl of Iveagh - 7 October 1927

Knighted - 1955

grandfather of Henry Paul Guinness Channon

son of Edward Cecil Guinness

husband of Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh

son-in-law of William Hillier Onslow

grandfather of Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness

grandfather of Mark Alexander Lennox-Boyd

Education

Eton College

Trinity College, Cambridge

Businessman

Elections fought

15 January 1906		Haggerston	Conservative Party	2,371	46.10
1 August 1908		Haggerston	Conservative Party	2,867	51.41
17 January 1910		Haggerston	Conservative Party	2,585	40.86
3 December 1910		Haggerston	Conservative Party	2,641	46.44
16 March 1912		South Eastern Essex	Conservative Party	Unopposed
14 December 1918		Southend-on-Sea	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	12,392	63.23
30 September 1919 Hon Rupert Guinness' father becomes the Earl of Iveagh, and Hon Rupert Guinness receives the courtesy title of Viscount Elveden.
15 November 1922		Southend-on-Sea	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,920	61.88
6 December 1923		Southend-on-Sea	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,566	50.18
29 October 1924		Southend-on-Sea	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,417	62.47
7 October 1927 Succession of Viscount Elveden to the Peerage - 2nd Earl of Iveagh.