First Marquis of Dufferin Memorial, City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 5GS

A Baroque tempietto in Portland stone designed by Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas, with sculpture by Frederick Pomeroy, erected in 1906 on the western side of City Hall. The monument commemorates Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, the First Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, one of Britain's most esteemed diplomats, who served as Governor General of Canada (1872–78), Ambassador to Russia and Turkey, and Viceroy of India (1884–88), before his death in 1902.

The structure comprises a limestone plinth with curved projections to front and back carrying inscriptions recording the areas where the Marquis worked. Four plain columns with Ionic capitals and swags rise from the plinth, with pediments broken by shields on either side and slightly higher arches with bronze enrichments to front and back. The temple is topped by a bronze winged figure representing Fame, standing on a bronze globe. The central bronze statue depicts the Marquis resplendent in breeches and sash, carrying a cocked hat, standing between the columns. Two further bronze figures flank the foot of the statue on lower plinths: one represents India, depicted as a turbanned warrior with sword seated on a tiger, and the other represents Canada, depicted as a fur-clad hunter with snowshoes on his back seated on a moose, both symbolising regions where Lord Dufferin was particularly prominent.

Pomeroy, a disciple of the Arts and Crafts Movement trained in architectural carving before moving to portraiture, designed the bronze elements in collaboration with Thomas, who designed the Portland stone canopy at Pomeroy's request. Work began in 1902 and was completed in 1906, at a cost of £5,000. The memorial was originally positioned in the centre of the western grounds facing Donegall Square West within a large circular lawn. Following alterations to the grounds in the 1920s and the addition of the Cenotaph and Garden of Remembrance in 1925–27, the statue was relocated to the western boundary of the grounds, where it remains. The monument forms part of an important group of high-quality memorials erected in the grounds shortly after the completion of City Hall, and is of particular significance both as a work by Thomas, the Hall's architect, and by Pomeroy, who also sculpted the marble statues of Robert James McMordie (1917) and Sir James Haslett (1907–09) within the same grounds. Cleaning and repair work was carried out in 1992–93.