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Marquessate of Donegall

Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th: Chequy Or and Gules, a Chief Vair (for Chichester); 2nd and 3rd: Azure fretty Argent (for Etchingham). Crest: A Stork proper, holding in the beak an Eel Argent. Supporters: On either side a Wolf Gules, ducally gorged and chained Or.[1]
Creation date4 July 1791
Created byGeorge III
PeeragePeerage of Ireland
First holderArthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegall
Present holderPatrick Chichester, 8th Marquess of Donegall
Heir apparentJames Chichester, Earl of Belfast
Remainder toHeirs male of the body
Subsidiary titlesEarl of Donegall
Earl of Belfast
Viscount Chichester
Baron Chichester
Baron Fisherwick
Baron Templemore
StatusExtant
Seat(s)Dunbrody Park
Former seat(s)Dunbrody House; Ormeau House; Belfast Castle; Donegall House
MottoINVICTUM SEQUITUR HONOR (Honour follows him who does not seek it)[2]

Marquess of Donegall is a title in the Peerage of Ireland held by the head of the Chichester family, originally from Devon, England. Sir John Chichester sat as a Member of Parliament and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1557. One of his sons, Sir Arthur Chichester, was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1605 to 1616. In 1613, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Chichester, of Belfast in County Antrim. He died childless in 1625 when the barony became extinct.[3]

However, in the same year the Chichester title was revived in favour of his younger brother, Edward Chichester, who was made Baron Chichester, of Belfast in the County of Antrim, and Viscount Chichester, of Carrickfergus in County Antrim.[4] Both titles are in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Arthur Chichester. A distinguished soldier, he was created Earl of Donegall in the Peerage of Ireland in 1647 (one year before he succeeded his father), with remainder to the heirs male of his father.[5][6]

He died without male issue and was succeeded (in the earldom according to the special remainder) by his nephew Arthur Chichester, the second Earl. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Chichester, second son of the first Viscount. Lord Donegall had previously represented Donegal County in the Irish House of Commons. His eldest son, the third Earl, was a Major-General in the Spanish army and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. He was killed in action in 1706. His eldest son, the fourth Earl, died childless and was succeeded by his nephew, the fifth Earl. He was the son of the Hon. John Chichester, younger son of the third Earl. Lord Donegall was created Baron Fisherwick, of Fisherwick in the County of Stafford, in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1790,[7] and one year later he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Belfast and Marquess of Donegall in the Peerage of Ireland.[8][9]

His grandson, the third Marquess, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Lord John Russell between 1848 and 1852. In 1841, three years before he succeeded his father in the marquessate, he was created Baron Ennishowen and Carrickfergus, of Ennishowen in the County of Donegal and of Carrickfergus in the County of Antrim, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[10] Both his sons predeceased him and on his death in 1883 the barony of 1841 became extinct. He was succeeded in his other titles by his younger brother, the fourth Marquess. On the death of his grandson, the sixth Marquess, in 1975, the line of the second Marquess failed. The sixth Marquess was succeeded by his kinsman, the fifth Baron Templemore (see below), who became the seventh Marquess. From 1975 until 1999, when most hereditary seats were abolished with the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, the Marquess sat in the House of Lords as Baron Fisherwick in the Peerage of Great Britain. As of 2015, the titles are held by the latter's son, the eighth Marquess, who succeeded in 2007.[2]

The county in Ulster from which the title is derived is now spelt Donegal. Several locations in Belfast are named after the family, such as Donegall Square, Donegall Place, Donegall Road, Donegall Pass, Donegall Quay, Chichester Street, Arthur Street, Arthur Square, and Chichester Park.

Chichester family

Several other members of the Chichester family have also gained distinction. John Chichester, grandson of Sir John Chichester, brother of the first Baron Chichester and the first Viscount Chichester, was created a baronet in 1641 (see Chichester baronets).[11] John Chichester, second son of the first Viscount and father of the second Earl, represented Dungannon in the Irish House of Commons. For the branch of the family founded by John Chichester's younger son and namesake, John Chichester, see Baron O'Neill and Baron Rathcavan.

Arthur Chichester, eldest son of Lord Spencer Chichester, second son of the first Marquess, was created Baron Templemore in 1831.[12] Lord Arthur Chichester, fourth son of the second Marquess, and Lord John Chichester, sixth son of the second Marquess, both represented Belfast in Parliament. Robert Chichester, eldest son of Lord Adolphus Chichester, youngest son of the fourth Marquess, briefly represented Londonderry South in Parliament. His wife Dehra was also a politician while their daughter, Marion Caroline Dehra, was the mother of The Baron Moyola, who served briefly as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and the politician Sir Robin Chichester-Clark and of the gardening writer and television presenter Penelope Hobhouse.

Family seats

Ulster and Dublin

The caput, or family seat, has been in several locations over the centuries, usually in the east of Ulster. Joymount House was built for The 1st Baron Chichester in the 1610s in Carrickfergus in the south-east of County Antrim, probably being completed in 1618.[13] Joymount, along with Chichester House on the outskirts of Dublin and the Plantation-era Belfast Castle in Belfast,[14] were the three original principal residences of the Chichester family in Ireland. Lord Chichester maintained Chichester House, located on the Hoggen Green (now College Green), as his 'town' residence on what was then the eastern edge of Dublin. Joymount House was probably demolished in the early eighteenth century, while Parliament House was built on the site of Chichester House in Dublin in the early 1730s. The Plantation-era Belfast Castle was largely destroyed by fire on 24 April 1708 and was not rebuilt.[15]

In the early to mid-nineteenth-century, the family seats were: Donegall House, a large townhouse on the corner of what is now Donegall Place and Donegall Square North in central Belfast[16] (Donegall House was later converted, in the 1820s, into a hotel called The Royal Hotel[17]); and Ormeau House (formerly Ormeau Cottage), a mansion largely built in the 1820s in the Ormeau Demesne (now Ormeau Park) in County Down, in what was then the south-eastern outskirts of Belfast.[18] Both these residences were later demolished, with Ormeau House being demolished in 1869 or 1870.[19][20]

The 2nd Marquess of Donegall, again during the early to mid-nineteenth-century, also maintained Fisherwick Lodge, a hunting 'lodge' near Doagh (pronounced 'D'oak') in County Antrim, on the family's country estate there.[21] Later in the nineteenth-century, Belfast Castle, on the lower slopes of Cave Hill in North Belfast, was purpose-designed and built for The 3rd Marquess of Donegall as the main residence of the family. This new Belfast Castle, a Victorian structure built in the 1860s,[22] was inherited by The 8th Earl of Shaftesbury and his wife in October 1883, thus passing out of the ownership of the Chichester family. Lord Shaftesbury had married the daughter of the third Marquess.

Belfast Castle (photographed in August 2011), constructed for The 3rd Marquess of Donegall on the slopes of Cave Hill in the 1860s.

County Wexford

From October 1953 until about 1996, Dunbrody House, formerly the seat of the Barons Templemore near Arthurstown in the south-west of County Wexford, was the family seat of The 7th Marquess of Donegall. From October 1953 until May 1975, the seventh Marquess was known as The 5th Baron Templemore. Arthurstown was named for The 1st Earl of Donegall. The house was sold by the seventh Marquess to chef Kevin Dundon, who converted it into a luxury hotel and restaurant in 1997.[23] What remains of the Dunbrody Estate is, however, still in the ownership of the current head of the family, The 8th Marquess of Donegall, whose present family seat is the much smaller Dunbrody Park within the estate grounds.

Baron Chichester (1613)

Baron Chichester and Viscount Chichester (1625)

Earl of Donegall (1647)

Marquess of Donegall (1791)

The heir apparent is the present holder's only son James Arthur Chichester, Earl of Belfast (b. 1990)
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Arthur Humphrey John Chichester, Viscount Chichester (b. 2022)

Male-line family tree

Male-line family tree, Barons Chichester (both creations), Viscounts Chichester, Earls of Donegall, and Marquesses of Donegall.
Sir John Chichester
died 1569
Baron Chichester
(1613)		Baron Chichester
Viscount Chichester
(both 1625)
Arthur Chichester
1st Baron Chichester
1563–1625		Edward Chichester
1st Viscount Chichester
1st Baron Chichester
1568–1648
1613 barony extinct
Earl of Donegall (1647)
Arthur Chichester
1st Earl of Donegall
2nd Viscount Chichester
1606–1675		Lt. Col.
John Chichester
1609–1647
Hon.
Williaṃ Chichester
died 1660		Arthur Chichester
2nd Earl of Donegall
3rd Viscount Chichester
died 1678
Arthur Chichester
3rd Earl of Donegall
4th Viscount Chichester
1666–1706
Arthur Chichester
4th Earl of Donegall
5th Viscount Chichester
1695–1757		Hon.
John Chichester
1700–1746
Baron Fisherwick
(1790, GB)
Earl of Belfast
Marquess of Donegall
(both 1791)
Arthur Chichester
1st Marquess of Donegall
5th Earl of Donegall
1739–1799
George Chichester
2nd Marquess of Donegall
6th Earl of Donegall
1769–1844		Hon.
Arthur Chichester
1771–1788		Lord
Spencer Chichester
1775–1819
Baron Ennishowen
and Carrickfergus
(1841, UK)		Baron Templemore
(1831, UK)
George Chichester
3rd Marquess of Donegall
7th Earl of Donegall
1797–1883		Edward Chichester
4th Marquess of Donegall
8th Earl of Donegall
1799–1889		Lord
Spencer Chichester
1805–1825		Lord
Arthur Chichester
1808–1840		Lord
Haṃilton Chichester
1810–1854		Lord
John Chichester
1811–1873		Lord
Stephen Chichester
1814–1890		Arthur Chichester
1st Baron Templemore
1797–1837
Ennishowen and
Carrickfergus barony
extinct
George Chichester
Viscount Chichester
1826–1827		Frederick Chichester
Earl of Belfast
1827–1853		George Chichester
5th Marquess of Donegall
9th Earl of Donegall
1822–1904		Lord
Henry Chichester
1834–1928		Lord
Adolphus Chichester
1836–1901		Harry Chichester
2nd Baron Templemore
1821–1906
Edward Chichester
6th Marquess of Donegall
10th Earl of Donegall
1903–1975		Severne Chichester
1861–1951		Forester Chichester
1864–1865		Robert Chichester
1873–1921		Augustus Chichester
1878–1902		Arthur Chichester
3rd Baron Templemore
1854–1924
Titles inherited by the
5th Baron Templemore
Robert Chichester
1902–1920		Arthur Chichester
4th Baron Templemore
1880–1953
Maj. Hon.
Arthur Chichester
1914–1942		Dermot Chichester
7th Marquess of Donegall
11th Earl of Donegall
5th Baron Templemore
1916–2007
Patrick Chichester
8th Marquess of Donegall
12th Earl of Donegall
6th Baron Templemore
born 1952
James Chichester
Earl of Belfast
born 1990

Line of succession

Line of succession

See also

References

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Harrison & Sons. p. 192. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Obituaries: The Marquess of Donegall". The Daily Telegraph. 20 July 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Arthur Chichester, Baron Chichester". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  4. ^ Burke, Bernard (1914). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. London: Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 636. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  5. ^ Burke 1914, p. 636
  6. ^ Debrett, John (1822). The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland: Volume 1. London: Debrett's. p. 905.
  7. ^ "No. 13210". The London Gazette. 19 June 1790. p. 373.
  8. ^ "No. 13322". The London Gazette. 5 July 1791. p. 387.
  9. ^ Debrett 1822, p. 906
  10. ^ "No. 20007". The London Gazette. 13 August 1841. p. 2072.
  11. ^ Complete Baronetage: English, Irish and Scottish, 1625-1649. Exeter: W. Pollard & Company. 1902. p. 120.
  12. ^ "No. 18846". The London Gazette. 9 September 1831. p. 1834.
  13. ^ Philip Robinson, Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 2: Carrickfergus, p. 4 (and Fig. 1 on p. 3), and Map 7 (Carrickfergus, drawn by Thomas Phillips in 1685). Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1986.
  14. ^ Raymond Gillespie and Stephen A. Royle, Irish Historic Towns Atlas Number 12: Belfast - Part I, to 1840, pp. 1–4. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2003.
  15. ^ Raymond Gillespie and Stephen A. Royle, Irish Historic Towns Atlas Number 12: Belfast - Part I, to 1840, p. 4. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2003.
  16. ^ W.A. Maguire, Living like a Lord: The Second Marquis of Donegall, 1769-1844, pp. 16–18. The Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2002 (originally published by The Appletree Press and The Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, Belfast, 1984).
  17. ^ W.A. Maguire, Living like a Lord: The Second Marquis of Donegall, 1769-1844, p. 61. The Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2002 (originally published by The Appletree Press and The Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, Belfast, 1984).
  18. ^ W.A. Maguire, Living like a Lord: The Second Marquis of Donegall, 1769-1844, pp. 73–75. The Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2002 (originally published by The Appletree Press and The Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, Belfast, 1984).
  19. ^ W.A. Maguire, 'Lords and landlords - the Donegall Family' in J.C. Beckett et al., Belfast: The Making of the City, p. 38. Lagan Books, Belfast, 2003 (originally published by The Appletree Press, Belfast, 1983. Maguire does not give an exact date for the demolition of Ormeau House; he seems to infer in this publication that it occurred in either 1869 or 1870.).
  20. ^ Norman Weatherall and George Templeton, South Belfast: History and Guide, p. 89. Nonsuch Publishing, Dublin, 2008 (the authors of this publication, without exact references, claim that Ormeau House was demolished around 1867).
  21. ^ W.A. Maguire, Living like a Lord: The Second Marquis of Donegall, 1769-1844, pp. 28, 73. The Ulster Historical Foundation, Belfast, 2002 (originally published by The Appletree Press and The Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, Belfast, 1984).
  22. ^ W.A. Maguire, 'Lords and landlords - the Donegall Family' in J.C. Beckett et al., Belfast: The Making of the City, pp. 37-38. Lagan Books, Belfast, 2003 (originally published by The Appletree Press, Belfast, 1983).
  23. ^ Ó Conghaile, Pól (13 April 2014). "A touch of Downton in the Blue Book-listed Dunbrody House". The Irish Examiner. Retrieved 22 December 2015.

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