George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall

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George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (10 February 1797 – 20 October 1883), styled Viscount Chichester until 1799 and Earl of Belfast between 1799 and 1844, was an Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 1830 to 1834, as well as from 1838 to 1841, and as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard between 1848 and 1852. Ennobled in his own right in 1841, he was also Lord Lieutenant of Antrim from 1841 to 1883 and was made a Knight of St Patrick in 1857.

Background and education

Lord Donegall was born at Great Cumberland Place, London, the eldest son of Viscount Chichester (who became the 2nd Marquess of Donegall in 1799) by his wife Anna May, daughter of Sir Edward May, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, before serving for a time as a captain with the 11th Hussars. He was known by the courtesy title Viscount Chichester from birth until 1799 and as Earl of Belfast from 1799 to 1844.<ref name="thepeerage.com">thepeerage.com Sir George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall</ref>

Political career

In 1818, Lord Belfast (as he was from 1799 until 1844) was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Carrickfergus,<ref>Template:Rayment-hc</ref> and two years later became representative for Belfast.<ref name="rayment">Template:Rayment-hc</ref> In July 1830 he was sworn of the Privy Council<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the Duke of Wellington's Tory administration.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In August he was returned to Parliament for Antrim.<ref>Template:Rayment-hc</ref> He continued as Vice-Chamberlain after Lord Grey formed his Whig government in November 1830. In 1831 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order. He remained as Vice-Chamberlain until 1834, the last months under the premiership of Lord Melbourne.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> In 1837 he was once again returned to Parliament for Belfast.<ref name="rayment"/> He did not initially serve in Melbourne's second administration, but in 1838 he once again became Vice-Chamberlain of the Household.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He resigned when the government fell in 1841,<ref name="thepeerage.com"/> and during the same year he unsuccessfully contested Belfast as a Liberal candidate.Template:Citation needed He was instead raised to the Peerage of the United Kingdom in his own right as Baron Ennishowen and Carrickfergus, of Ennishowen in the County of Donegal and of Carrickfergus in the County of Antrim.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He sat in the House of Lords at Westminster for three years under this title before succeeding his father in the marquessate in 1844.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>

Lord Donegall did not serve initially in Lord John Russell's first administration, but in 1848 he returned to the government as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. He resigned along with the rest of the Whig government in early 1852. Apart from his political career he was also Lord Lieutenant of Antrim from 1841 to 1883.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/> In 1857 he was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/><ref>Template:Usurped</ref> At the time of his death in 1883 he was the senior member of the Privy Council.

Family

Lord Donegall married Lady Harriet Anne Butler (d. 1860), daughter of the 1st Earl of Glengall, in 1822. They had three children:

  • Lady Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester (d. 14 April 1898); married the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury.
  • George Augustus Chichester, Viscount Chichester (26 May 1826 – 18 June 1827)
  • Frederick Richard Chichester, Earl of Belfast (25 November 1827 – 11 February 1853); died in Naples, unmarried.

After his first wife's death in September 1860, he married as his second wife Harriett Graham (d. 1884), daughter of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7th Baronet, and widow of Sir Frederick Ashworth, in 1862. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Donegall died in Brighton, Sussex, in October 1883, aged 86, and was buried in Belfast.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>

As both his sons had predeceased him, the larger part of the Donegall estates was inherited by his only daughter, Harriet Ashley-Cooper, Lady Ashley (later Countess of Shaftesbury and previously Lady Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina Chichester), wife of the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury.Template:Citation needed

He owned 23,000 acres, mostly in Donegal and Antrim.<ref>The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland</ref>

The Ennishowen and Carrickfergus barony died with him, while he was succeeded in his other peerages by his younger brother, Lord Edward Chichester. The Marchioness of Donegall died in March 1884.<ref name="thepeerage.com"/>

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