Strabane (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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| Strabane | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Tyrone |
| Borough | Strabane |
| ?–1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Strabane was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1613 | James Montgomery | Daniel Molyneux | ||||
| 1634 | Richard FitzGerald | Charles Mouncke | ||||
| 1639 | James Galbraith | |||||
| 1661 | Alexander Staples, expelled and repl, 1665 by Sir Peter Harvey |
John Craige | ||||
| 1666 | James Hamilton[1] | |||||
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Christopher Nugent | Peter Donnelly | ||||
| 1692 | Sir Matthew Bridges | Oliver McCausland | ||||
| 1695 | Audley Mervyn | |||||
| 1703 | James Topham | |||||
| 1713 | Gustavus Hamilton | |||||
| 1715 | Richard Stewart | |||||
| 1723 | Henry Colley | |||||
| 1725 | John McCausland | |||||
| 1727 | Hon. Charles Hamilton | |||||
| 1729 | Oliver McCausland | |||||
| 1733 | William Hamilton | |||||
| 1761 | Robert Lowry | |||||
| 1763 | John Stuart Hamilton [a] | |||||
| 1765 | George Montgomery | |||||
| 1768 | William Brownlow | |||||
| 1769 | Claude Hamilton | |||||
| 1776 | Henry Pomeroy [b] | |||||
| January 1798 | Nathaniel Montgomery-Moore | John Stewart | ||||
| 1798 | Andrew Knox | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Paul 1904, p. 56, bottom: "In 1666 he was elected Member of Parliament for the borough of Strabane, and took the seat on 3 July in that year ..."
- Paul, Sir James Balfour (1904), The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, vol. 1, Edinburgh: David Douglas – Abercorn to Balmerino
Further reading
[edit]- Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2007), History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, ISBN 9781903688717
External links
[edit]- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
- Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885