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Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).
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Iveagh helped finance the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and Mount Iveagh, a mountain in the Supporters Range in Antarctica, is named for him.
An Anglo-Irish aristocrat, he is the son of Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh and Miranda Guinness.
It was purchased from the 4th Earl of Iveagh in 1999 for €29.2 million.
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It was purchased by Edward Cecil Guinness when he married his cousin Adelaide Guinness in 1873.
During the legal proceedings in 1891, many offers came to buy to great Savernake estates, including Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, then Chairman of the Board, and former CEO of the Guinness Company.