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Desmond Guinness: Irish architectural historian and conservationist (1931–2020).
Born (died at age 88).
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Desmond Walter Guinness was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, and his then wife Diana Mitford.
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