Henry Grattan Guinness

Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910), grandson of Arthur Guinness founder of the Irish brewery, was born in Dublin in the year of Halley’s Comet. Both his mother and father had been widowed. His mother’s first husband was killed in a duel with Daniel O’Connell. 

At 17, after a night of wrestling with God, he was converted to Christ. He became a life long teetotaller. After college he travelled England preaching the Gospel to large crowds as an itinerant evangelist and embarked on a three year preaching tour which took him half way round the world. In England and Scotland he preached in the pulpits of George Whitefield, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, and Robert Haldane. He preached alongside C.H. Spurgeon and D.L. Moody and was considered one of the greatest preachers of that generation preaching to crowds of 20-30,000. 

​​In 1872, he started a missionary institute in Dublin with just six students. After three years he had over 100 students and moved to London. In the first 30 years of the Institute 1,500 young people were trained and sent out to the foreign mission-field. He started several different mission societies, wrote a number of classic books, and raised a family of children who served God faithfully. His daughter married the son of Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, and wrote Taylor's official biography. 

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