Marquess of Donegall is a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created in 1791 for the Earl of Donegall.
The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Donegall (1647), Earl of Belfast (1791), Viscount Chichester, of Carrickfergus in the County of Antrim (1625), Baron Chichester, of Belfast in the County of Antrim (1625), Baron Fisherwick, of Fisherwick in the County of Stafford (1790), and Baron Templemore, of Templemore in the County of Donegall (1831). All are in the Peerage of Ireland, except the Baronies of Fisherwick and Templemore, which are in the Peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom respectively.
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall (June 16, 1606) - (March 18, 1675) was an Irish nobleman and soldier.
He was the eldest son of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and made a career as a soldier before being elected to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for County Antrim in 1634 and again in 1640.
Lord Donegall died after a short illness in Belfast in 1675 and was buried in St Nicholas's Church, Carrickfergus.
On the,5.th of October 1604 Chichester was appointed lorddeputy of Ireland He announced his policy in a proclamation wherein he abolished the semi-feudal rights of the native Irish chieftains, substituting for them fixed dues, while their tenants were to become dependent wholly and immediately upon his majesty.
But in 1607, by the flight of the Earls (see ONEILL), he was relieved of the presence of the two formidable Ulster chieftains, the earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell.
Chichesters policy for dealing with the situation thus created was to divide the lands of the fugitive earls among Irishmen of standing and character; but the plantation of Ulster as actually carried out was much less favorable and just to the native population than the lord-deputy desired.
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