Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Swords | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Dublin |
| Borough | Swords |
| ?–1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor[1]
- 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)[1]
- 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson )[1]
- 1639–1642 John Taylor[2] and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
- 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson[3]
- 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne[3]
1689–1801
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Francis Barnwall | Robert Russell | ||||
| 1692 | Richard Forster | John Reading | ||||
| 1695 | Thomas Ashe | |||||
| 1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | James Peppard | |||
| 1713 | Plunket Plunket | |||||
| 1715 | Richard Molesworth[4] | |||||
| 1727 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | Edward Bolton | ||||
| 1759 | Thomas Cobbe | |||||
| 1761 | Hamilton Gorges | |||||
| 1768 | John Hatch | John Damer | ||||
| 1776 | Thomas Cobbe | Charles King | ||||
| 1783 | Charles Cobbe | John Hatch | ||||
| 1790 | John Claudius Beresford | Eyre Massey | ||||
| January 1798 | Francis Synge | Charles Cobbe | ||||
| 1798 | Marcus Beresford | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c McGrath, Bríd (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
- ^ "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office. 1890.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
- ^ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
References
[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.