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Belfast City Hall from Donegal Square West before the Cenotaph/Rememberance garden were built. maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=54.596263,-5.931399&a...

The Most Honourable Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (21 June 1826-12 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth, he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic. He is now best known as one of the most successful diplomats of his time. His long career in public service began as a commissioner to Syria in 1860, where his skillful diplomacy maintained British interests while preventing France from instituting a client state in Lebanon. After his success in Syria, Lord Dufferin served in the Government of the United Kingdom as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Under-Secretary of State for War. In 1872 he became the third Governor General of Canada, bolstering imperial ties in the early years of the Dominion, and in 1884 he reached the pinnacle of his diplomatic career as eighth Viceroy of India. The Frederick W. Pomeroy "Dufferin" is not unfamiliar to Ontario residents, for scarcely a major city or town in the Canadian province does not have either a "Dufferin Street" or "Dufferin Avenue," owing to his having served as Governor-General of Canada from 1872 to 1878. That his statue is guarded, so to speak, by a turbaned Indian as well as a Canadian voyageur reminds us that he also served the British crown as Viceroy of India (1884). Frederick Temple Hamilton, First Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), was not in fact a native of Belfast, having been born in Florence. He succeeded his father as the fifth baron Dufferin in 1841, was educated at Eton and Oxford, and from 1860 served the British government in various capacities, including under-secretary for India (1864-66) and secretary of war (1866), and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1868-72).

Cuddly Nutter Thanks! Now added to our map.

billh35 Huge amounts of information! Just for reference sake, is this all from Wikipedia? Plus, if he died in 1902, can we assume this photo was taken after 1902 as a memorial? Or was it erected towards the end of his life?

The city hall construction was not finished until 1906 so it must be post that date.

Sir Hamar Greenwood liked waggling his stick ! ... www.britishpathe.com/video/sir-hamar-greenwood-1

... and appeared in a cartoon spilling red ink over Ulster - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000508368 . I'm not at all sure what that was about !

Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, PC, KC (7 February 1870 – 10 September 1948), known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician. He served as the last Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1920 and 1922. Both his sons died unmarried rendering the Greenwood viscountcy extinct in 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamar_Greenwood,_1st_Viscount_Green...

Per wikipedia: Initially the Parliament met in Belfast's City Hall

Yes: Streetview

Streetview Unveiled in 1906, per the DIA City Hall itself was officially opened by Lord Leiutenant (Earl of Aberdeen) 1 Aug 1906 (per its DIA ref).

Niall McAuley Thank you, Niall. And the day and the hour? ;)

The memorial was unveiled by the Marquess of Londonderry on 9 June 1906 says Belfast City Council Heritage Directory

Niall McAuley Fantastic! But there's still the little matter of the time of day? :D

The base of the Dufferin statue is made up of a turbaned Indian astride a cannon and holding a sabre, as well as a snowshoed Canadian with a musket, sitting on a dead moose. Seriously!