Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (1568 – 8 July 1648) of Eggesford in Devon, was Governor of Carrickfergus and Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh, in Ireland. Origins He was the third son of Sir John Chichester (died 1569), knight, lord of the manor of Raleigh, in the parish of Pilton, Devon, about three-quarters of a mile north-east of the historic centre of Barnstaple, by his wife Gertrude Courtenay (1521–1566), a daughter by his second marriage of Sir William Courtenay (1477–1535) "The Great" of Powderham, MP for Devon 1529–1535, and a distant cousin of the Earl of Devon. He was thus the younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester of Belfast (1563–1625), founder of Belfast. Career He was knighted in 1616, and after his brother's death in 1625 was in his memory ennobled as Baron Chichester, of Belfast, and Viscount Chichester, of Carrickfergus, both in the County of Antrim, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He succeeded his brother in his extensive estates as well as in his offices of Governor of Carrickfergus and Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh. He took his seat in the Irish House of Lords in 1634. Marriages and children Edward Chichester married twice: Firstly in 1605 to Anne Copleston (1588–1616), the sole daughter and heiress of John Copleston Esq., (died 1606) of Eggesford by his wife Dorothy Biston (died 29 July 1601). They had the following children: Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall (1606–1674) the eldest son. Col. John Chichester (died 1647), a Royalist during the Civil War, who married Mary Jones, eldest daughter of Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh (d. 1643), an Irish peer and Lord President of Connaught. Lt-Col. Edward Chichester (born 1611), a Royalist during the Civil War, who married Elisabeth Fisher, 5th daughter of Sir Edward Fisher, Knight, the latter who in 1611 had obtained letters patent from King James I for extensive lands in Wexford, Ireland, from which he ejected the local population by force of arms and formed into the "Manor of Chichester", and in 1617 renamed Fisherstown, with his seat at "Fisher's Prospect". Elizabeth Chichester, eldest daughter, wife of Sir William Wrey, 2nd Baronet (1600–1645) of Trebeigh, St Ive, Cornwall and North Russell, Sourton, Devon, MP for Liskeard, Cornwall in 1624. Her eldest son was Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet (1628–1668), of Trebeigh, MP for Lostwithiel in Cornwall. Both the 2nd and 3rd Baronets were Royalists