Arthur Guinness 1815 - 1897
Arthur Guinness (FRCS Dublin 1835 MD Glasgow 1836) 1815? - 1897 was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, Physician to Raheny and Clontarf Dispensaries Dublin, Medical Attendant of Dublin Homeopathic Institution, Physician to Exeter Homeopathic Dispensary and member of the English Homeopathy Association and member of the British Homeopathic Society.
Arthur Guinness practiced in Raheny in 1843, and in 1855 he was Medical Officer at the Exeter Homeopathic Dispensary at 3 Dixfield, and in Cheltenham as a Provincial Referee for the Caledonian Insurance Company in 1866, and in 1884, he was living in Oxford.
In 1858 Arthur Guinness attended a Festival in aid of the London Homeopathic Hospital with many Aristocratic and minor gentry patrons attending, alongside Dr. Ayerst, William Bayes, Hugh Cameron, Edward Charles Chepmell, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, Edward Hamilton, Frantz Hartmann, Amos Henriques, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, Charles Caulfield Tuckey, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.
Arthur Guinness had held the post of Physician to the Raheny Dispensary for eight years as an allopathic doctor, and for the first time in the British Isles. Arthur Guinness resigned immediately upon his conversion to homeopathy, but was immediately re-elected to that post as a homeopathic physician in 1846 by a unanimous vote of the subscribers. Arthur Guinness submitted his article Report of the Raheny Dispensary to The British Journal of Homeopathy that same year. Arthur Guinness wrote to John James Drysdale, the editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy, to inform him of his re-election to office.
Two years later, in 1848, Arthur Guinness left Clontarf to move to Exeter, to the dismay of his patients.
Arthur Guinness is listed in The Homeopathic Medical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland in 1871, and in The Homeopathic Medical Directory in 1872.
Arthur Guinness’ Obituary is in The Journal of the British Homeopathic Society in 1897.
Arthur Guinness wrote My Conversion to Homeopathy; Together with Remarks on the Question of the Dose, A Lecture on Homeopathy,
Of interest:
Arthur Guinness 1725 - 1803 was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family and the father of Arthur Guinness 1768 - 1855.
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun 1840 – 1915
Born at St Anne’s, Clontarf, near Dublin, the fourth Arthur was the great grandson of the original Arthur Guinness. He was the eldest son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, and elder brother of Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh.
In 1881, Lord Ardilaun (as Sir Arthur Guinness became in 1880) made a proposal to construct a new church (at Raheny), on a site he would provide at the village end of his St. Anne’s Estate, and this was agreed by the parish in 1885.
Benjamin L Guinness is listed as a member of the Irish Homeopathic Society in St. Anne’s, Clontarf in A concise view of the system of homeopathy in 1845.
1839, Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness proposed the building of a new parish church (at Raheny), at a new site, but although the idea was approved by the Easter Vestry, it did not succeed.
W Smyth Guinness is listed as a member of the Irish Homeopathic Society at Rathdrum in A concise view of the system of homeopathy in 1845.
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