Abstract
Arthur Guinness was born in 1725. His family was not poor and in 1759 he acquired a brewery property overlooking the Liffey River near St. James' Gate. Arthur Guinness was an early member of the Dublin Society, an organization that promoted the improvement of domestic industry and agriculture to the benefit of the oppressed majority. Though he was a strict member of the Protestant Church of Ireland, he is recalled as having been fair and respectful of his mainly Catholic workforce. He managed to convince his majesty's tax collectors that it was to their financial advantage to encourage rather than penalize the Irish brewing industry.
