Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Chichester
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Anglo-Irish School portrait in the collection of Belfast Harbour Commissioners
Lord Deputy of Ireland
In office
1605–1616
Preceded bySir George Cary
Succeeded bySir Oliver St John
Personal details
BornMay 1563
Raleigh, Devon, England
Died19 February 1625 (aged 61)
London, England
SpouseLettice Perrot
ChildrenArthur
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Arms of Chichester: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair
Frontispiece of the manuscript of the 1607 heraldic visitation by Ulster King of Arms Daniel Molyneux, undertaken in Dublin. On the right hand column are shown the arms of Sir Arthur Chichester, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, who was later created The 1st Baron Chichester.

Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester (May 1563 – 19 February 1625; known between 1596 and 1613 as Sir Arthur Chichester), of Carrickfergus[1] in Ireland, was an English administrator and soldier who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1605 to 1616. He was instrumental in the development and expansion of Belfast, now Northern Ireland's capital. Several streets are named in honour of himself and his nephew and heir Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, including Chichester Street and the adjoining Donegall Place, site of the Belfast City Hall.

  1. ^ Biography by his nephew Sir Faithful Fortescue (d.1666): "Carrickfergus, where he had built the noblest House in the kingdom, and had prepared a neat tomb to receive him when God shoud please to send him to it" (Clermont, Lord (Thomas Fortescue), History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, (first published 1869) 2nd edition London, 1880, p.177 [1])