Miss Maureen Guinness Country Life Magazine Portrait July 21 1928

Miss Maureen Guinness Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 21 1928. LXIV No. 1644

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Maureen Guinness, the second of the three daughters of the Hon. Ernest and Mrs. Guinness.

• Identity: Maureen Constance Guinness (1907–1998), an Anglo-Irish socialite and heiress to the Guinness brewing fortune.
• Family: She was the daughter of Hon. Ernest Guinness and Marie Clothilde Russell, and one of the famous “Golden Guinness Girls” alongside her sisters Aileen and Oonagh.
• Marriage: In 1930, she married Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, becoming the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
• Children: She had three children with her first husband:
  • Lady Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996)
  • Lady Perdita Blackwood (born 1934)
  • Sheridan Blackwood (1938–1988), 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• Later Life: She married twice more and became one of the first women to sit on the board of the Guinness Brewery in 1949.
• Reputation: Known for her flamboyant personality, she was a prominent figure in British and Irish high society.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.