DONEGALL 393 Ormean, co. Antrim, aged 75, and was hur. at Carrickfcrgus. Will dat. II Sep. 1844, pr- Feb. 1845. His widow d. 6 Feb. 1849, in Chesham Place. MARQUESSATE [I]. ] 3 and 7. George Hamilton (Chi- chester), Marquess of Donecall, ^c. I [I.], also Baron Fisherwick, s. and h., PART noM rn I ' "^'^' ^- '° ^'^^- ^797, '" Great Cumberland EARLDOM [I.J pj^^^^^ j^;j^_. ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ Belfast, VII. J 1799-1844; ed. at Eton(^) 1808 to circi I 8 13, and (18 1 6) at Ch. Ch., Oxford; sometime Captain in the 7th Hussars; M. P. (Tory and anti-Cath.) for Carrick- fergus 1818-20; for Belfast 1820-30; for co. Antrim (Whig) 1830-;^ 7; and for Belfast (again) 1 837-38 ;() Vice Chamberlain of the Household, i 830-34 and again I 838-41 ;P.C.[G.B.] iqjuly i830;G.C.H. i 83 i ; Lord Lieut, of CO. Antrim 1841-83. On 18 Aug. 1841 he was cr. {v.p.) BARON ENNIS- HOWEN AND CARRICKFERGUS, of Ennishowen, co. Donegal, and Carrickfergus, co. Antrim ;('^) Col. of the 4th Batt. Royal Irish Rifle Volun- teers; Militia A.D.C. to the Queen, 1847-83; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard, 1848-52; K.P. 3 Feb. 1857. Hew;., istly, 8 Dec. i 822, at St. James's, Westm., Harriet Anne,('^) ist da. of Richard (Butler), ist Earl of Glengall [I.], by Emily, da. of James St. John Jeffreys. She, who was k I Jan. 1 799, d. 14 Sep. i 860, in Paris. He m., 2ndly, 26 Feb. i 862, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Harriet, widow of Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick Ash- woRTH, K.C.B., da. of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7th Bart., by his 1st wife, Henrietta, da. of George Clark.. He d. s.p.w.s., at Brighton, 20 Oct. 1883, in his 87th year, being then the senior member of the Privy Council. On his death the Barony of Ennishowen and Carrickfergus (cr. Marquis was in some perplexity about his own marriage; he was ultimately obliged to go to the serious expense of having an Act of Parliament passed to legalise it, the Marchioness having been under age at the time it was celebrated. She was a natural child, so without a parent, consequently the Chancellor was her guardian. She had been brought up, indeed adopted, by a worthy couple somewhere in Wales; they supposed their consent sufficient, but it was not." [Memoirs of a Highland Lady, 1898, p. 300). V.G. {*) He entered when aged 11, in the form called " Nonsense," almost at the bottom of the school. V.G. (*) He opposed Irish Church Disestablishment in 1868, but did not vote in 1869. V.G. C^) A singular fashion of giving a dual description of the place of the dignity. This was a Consolation peerage for his defeat as Liberal candidate for Belfast. For a list of these peerages see vol. v. Appendix B. (^) When Earl of Belfast, he and his wife, who was hot-tempered, were known as " Bel and the Dragon." " She was partly brought up in France by the Empress Josephine . . . and she has all the discernment and finesse of a clever Frenchwoman." (T. Raikes's Journal, 9 May 1 846). He was " a typical easy going Irishman, always in debt." V.G. 50
