Sceptre and Rook Sand after an exceptionally exciting contest. Other notable horses bred by John Gubbins were Blairfinde (winner of the Irish Derby) and Revenue. In 1897 he headed the list of winning owners with a total of 22,739l., and was third in the list in 1903. His horses were at various times trained by H. E. Linde (in Ireland), Joussiflfe (at Lambourn), and S. Darling (at Beckhampton.) After John Gubbins was rarely seen on a racecourse owing to failing health, and in 1903 he sold his horses in training. In 1905, however, his health having apparently improved, he sent some yearlings to Cranborne, Dorset, to be trained by Sir Charles Nugent, but before these horses could run he died at Bruree on 20 March 1906, and was buried in the private burial ground at Kilfrush. He was high sheriff of co. Limerick in 1886, as well as J. P. and D.L. A warm-hearted, genial personality, he was a kind and indulgent landlord and employer, and a sportsman of the best type.
In 1889 he married Edith, daughter of Charles Legh, of Addington Hall, Cheshire; she predeceased him without issue. His estates passed to his nephew, John Norris Browning, a retired naval surgeon.
[Notes supplied by Mr. D. R. Browning, of Bruree, co. Limerick; Burke's Landed Gentry; Sportsman, 21 March 1906; Baily's Magazine, May 1906; Ruff's Guide to the Turf.]
GUINNESS, HENRY GRATTAN (1835–1910), divine and author, born on 11 Aug. 1835 at Montpelier House, near Kingstown, Ireland, was eldest son in the family of one daughter and three sons of John Grattan Guinness (1783-1850), captain in the army, who saw service in India. His mother was Jane Lucretia, daughter of Wilham Cramer (an accomplished violinist and composer, who was son of Johann Baptist Cramer [q. v.]), musical composer, and was widow of Captain J. N. D'Esterre, who was killed by Daniel O'Connell [q. v.] in a duel in Feb. 1815. His grandfather, Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, co. Dublin, established the first Sunday school in Ireland in Dublin in 1786. During their father's lifetime the family lived variously at Dublin, Liverpool, Clifton, and Cheltenham. After education at private schools at Clevedon and Exeter, Guinness at the age of seventeen went to sea, and travelled through Mexico and the West Indies. On his return to England in March 1853 he experienced religious' conversion.' In Jan. 1856 he entered New College, St. John's Wood, London, was ordained as an undenominational evangelist in July 1857, and entered on evangelistic work, to which he thenceforth devoted his life at home and abroad. He met with great success as a preacher in London, rivalling Charles Haddon Spurgeon [q. v.] in popularity, and preaching often at the Moorficlds Tabernacle, the charge of which he was offered but declined. There followed preaching tours on the Continent in Jan. 1858, in Ireland in Feb. 1858 and in 1859, and in America from Nov. 1859 to May 1860. After his first marriage on 2 Oct. 1860 he and his wife spent twelve years in incessant travelling. He visited Canada in 1861 and Egypt and Palestine in 1862. He then held a short pastorate at Liverpool, and afterwards worked in Ireland. Towards the close of 1865 Guinness took a house at 31 Bagot Street, Dublin, with a view to forming a training home for evangelists and missionaries. In 1866 he also conducted in Dublin the Merrion Hall Mission, and there he helped to bring Thomas John Bamardo [q. v. Suppl. II] under religious influence. In 1867 he left Dublin for Bath. Work in France occupied much of his time from 1868 to 1872. Next year he founded in London, and directed till his death, the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, for the training of young men and women for home and foreign missionary work. The Institute was first located at 29 Stepney Green, and subsequently at Harley House, Bow. Bamardo was a co-director. During the first year the students numbered 32. At the end of three years branches were formed in London, and one was installed at Hulme Cliff College, Curbar, Derbyshire. Accommodation was provided for 100 men and women; over 1100 men and women have since been trained.
With the opening up of the Congo and the publication of H. M. Stanley's letters at the end of 1877, Guinness and his wife resolved to concentrate on foreign missions. A monthly magazine, 'The Regions Beyond,' was started in 1878. The Livingstone Inland Mission was formed in the Congo in 1878, and in 1880 became a branch of the institute, with Guinness as director and Mrs. Guinness as secretary. It was transferred to the control of the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1884 (see Mrs. Guinnesss's The New World of Central Africa, 1890). A new mission to the interior of Africa, the Congo Balolo Mission, was founded in 1889,and others followed in South America — in Peru in 1897, and the Argentine in 1899. The organisations were combined
