The true story behind Netflix’s House of Guinness sheds some light on a question many are asking: was Arthur Guinness gay ?

The business of Guinness began in 1759, when the first Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on St James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.

Netflix’s eight-part drama, House of Guinness , follows a chapter of the family history, staring from 1868. The synopsis states: “Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery’s fate in their hands.”

As reported by BBC History Magazine : “The Arthur Guinness of House of Guinness is not the one who founded the brewery back in 1759. This is his great-grandson, Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun.”

The Arthur that the series is based was born on 1

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