She is a direct descendant of the 18th century Irish brewer Arthur Guinness. Nowadays it is part of the Heineken corporation who bought it from Guinness. The cast included William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, and Sessue Hayakawa. Sir Alec Guinness and his wife are buried in Petersfield. Wedgwood China, British South African Airways, Guinness, and Bovril. The UK is the only sovereign state to consume more Guinness than Ireland. John Cunningham served 17 years for kidnapping Jennifer Guinness. Diageo was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness Brewery and Grand Metropolitan. Amschel Rothschild and his wife Anita Guinness of the Guinness Brewery family. His character was a pitiable sort always nursing a pint of Guinness. In Ireland, this truncation resulted in surnames such as "Guinness" (son of Aonghus, cf. She was also the mother of a son, Patrick Guinness. In September 1937 Gosset was promoted to Head Brewer of all Guinness. In 1886, the bank helped broker the listing of the Guinness brewery. He returned to find London Wasps struggling near the bottom of the Guinness Premiership.