Wicklow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Wicklow | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Wicklow |
| Borough | Wicklow |
| ?–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Wicklow was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Wicklow in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1613–1615 Sir William Ussher and Sir Laurence Esmonde[1]
- 1634–1635 William Ussher and James Byrne[2]
- 1639–1649 Richard Parsons (died and replaced in 1642 by John Hill. Hill then died and was replaced in 1645 by Joshua Carpenter) and John Hoey[2]
- 1661–1665 Robert Shapcote and Roger Sotheby[2]
1689–1801
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Francis Toole | Thomas Byrne | ||||
| 1692 | Nathaniel King | Sir Richard Reynell, 2nd Baronet | ||||
| 1695 | William Robinson | |||||
| 1696 | Christopher Carleton | |||||
| 1703 | John Price | |||||
| 1704 | Sir William Fownes | |||||
| 1705 | Joshua Dawson | |||||
| 1713 | Henry Percy | |||||
| 1715 | Richard Edwards | Samuel Walter Whitshed | ||||
| 1723 | James Whitshed | |||||
| 1735 | Thomas Theaker | |||||
| 1747 | James Whitshed | |||||
| 1751 | Edmund Sexton Pery | Patriot | ||||
| 1761 | William Tighe | William Whitshed | ||||
| 1767 | Richard William Tighe | |||||
| 1768 | Edward Tighe | |||||
| 1771 | John Talbot Dillon | |||||
| 1776 | Sir William Fownes, 2nd Bt | |||||
| 1777 | Hon. Robert Ward | |||||
| 1778 | George Ponsonby | |||||
| October 1783 | John Lloyd | Edward Tighe | ||||
| 1783 | Samuel Hayes | |||||
| 1790 | William Tighe | |||||
| 1798 | Daniel Gahan | William Henry Armstrong | ||||
| 1800 | Henry Grattan | Patriot | ||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ McGrath, Brid (24 October 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 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ^ a b c Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 639.
- 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.