Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall

Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall, PC (Ire) (died 26 October 1678), was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Chichester was the eldest son of Lady Mary Jones and Lieutenant Colonel John Chichester (1609–1647), of Dungannon, County Tyrone, who was MP for Dungannon and fought in the English Civil War.

[1] He was knighted at Whitehall in 1660, and served in the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Dungannon (1661–1666).

He was Custos Rotulorum for County Antrim and Governor of Carrickfergus for twelve years before dying in Ireland in 1678.

[3][4][5] Lord Donegall died on 26 October 1678 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Arthur.

Stained glass, All Saints Church, Horsford, Norfolk, showing arms of Dacre Barrett, son of Richard Barrett and Anne Loftus. He married, firstly, Lady Jane Chichester, daughter of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall and Jane Itchingham. [ citation needed ] Arms of Lennard, Lord Dacre ( Or, on a fess gules three fleurs-de-lys of the first ) quartering Barrett, Lord Newburgh ( Party per pale barry of four counterchanged argent and gules ) impaling the arms of Chichester, Marquess of Donegall quartered with Echyngham ( Azure, fretty argent ). [ 2 ]