George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of
Donegall,
KP,
GCH,
PC (10 February 1797 –
20 October 1883) was an Irish nobleman.
He was born in Great
Cumberland Place, London
, and was
educated at Eton
and Christ Church,
Oxford
before serving for a time as a Captain with the
11th Hussars.
In 1818
Chichester was elected to the House of Commons
as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Carrickfergus,
and two years later became representative for Belfast
. In
1830 he was finally elected
Whig
MP for
Antrim,
and was again elected to the Commons for
Belfast in 1837.
After
unsuccessfully recontesting the seat as a Liberal candidate in 1841, he was that
same year created Baron Ennishowen and
Carrickfergus, of Ennishowen, County Donegal
, and Carrickfergus, County Antrim.
He sat in
the House of
Lords
at Westminster
for three years under this title before succeeding
his father as third Marquess of
Donegall in 1844.
Chichester was admitted to the
Privy Council in 1830,
becoming at the time of his death its senior member, and was the
following year made a Knight Grand Cross of the
Royal Guelphic Order. In 1841 he was
appointed
Lord Lieutenant of
Antrim, and also later served as
Captain of the Yeomen of the
Guard, 1848–1852. He was finally appointed a
Knight of the Order of St Patrick in
1857.
Lord
Donegall died in Brighton
in 1883 and
was buried in Belfast
.
His only
surviving son and heir, Frederick Richard Chichester, Earl
of Belfast, having died in Naples
in 1853, the
larger part of the Donegall estates were inherited by the
Marquess's daughter, Harriet Augusta Anna Seymourina
Chichester, wife of Anthony
Ashley-Cooper, 8th Earl of Shaftesbury.