Roughly what did Guinness pay for his brother’s half-share in 1876?
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The price was about £600,000, which valued the whole brewery at roughly £1.2 million a decade before the flotation.
By how many times was the 1886 share offer oversubscribed?
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The offer was twenty times oversubscribed, which critics took as evidence the business had been priced for a speculative market.
By roughly how much did the new shares close above their issue price on the first day?
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They finished the first day of trading about 60 per cent up, an immediate paper gain for the subscribers who got an allocation.
Roughly what share of the company did Guinness keep after the flotation?
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He retained roughly 35 per cent and bought more shares afterwards to keep control; the dividends on that stake paid him for forty years.
Which medical research institute did Guinness give £250,000 to in 1898?
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The gift to the Lister Institute was one of three separate quarter-million-pound donations he made.
Which polar expedition did Guinness help finance?
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He backed the 1907 to 1909 expedition, which is why Mount Iveagh in Antarctica carries his title.
Which university’s chancellorship did Guinness hold from 1908?
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He was elected Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 1908 and held the office for the rest of his life.
In which year was Guinness created Baron Iveagh?
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The barony came in 1891, five years after the flotation made him the richest man in Ireland.
Which Dublin house of his later became Iveagh House?
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80 St Stephen’s Green was his Dublin residence and was later given to the Irish state as Iveagh House.
Roughly what was the brewery’s annual profit in 1913?
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Profits were £1,125,202 in 1913, up from £543,000 in the first year after the flotation.
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