Ennis (UK Parliament constituency)

Ennis
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Clare

Ennis is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Ennis in County Clare.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	John Ormsby Vandeleur	Tory	1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 22	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1808, February 25	Rt Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald	Tory	a
	1812, October 24	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1813, January 4	Rt Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald	Tory	a
	1818, June 26	Spencer Perceval	Tory	Not the Prime Minister assassinated in 1812
	1820, March 18	Sir Ross Mahon, Bt	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1820, June 29	Richard Wellesley	Tory
	1826, June 16	Thomas Frankland Lewis	Tory	Resigned
	1828, April 23	William Smith O'Brien	Tory	b
	1831, May 11	Rt Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory	Succeeded as the 2nd Baron Fitzgerald and Veseya
	1832, February 28	Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, Bt	Tory
	1832, December 20	Francis McNamara	Repeal Association
	1835, January 14	Hewitt Bridgeman	Liberal
	1847, August 3	The O'Gorman Mahon	Repeal Association
	1852, July 13	Rt Hon. John David Fitzgerald	Liberal	Became a member of the Independent Irish Party
	1852		Independent Irish	Appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, as a Liberal
	1855, March 8		Liberal	Appointed Judge of the Irish Queen's Bench
	1860, February 20	William Stacpoole	Liberal	Sought re-election as a Home Rule League candidate
	1874, February 5		Home Rule League	Died
	1879, February 28	James Lysaght Finigan	Home Rule League	1880: Supporter of Parnellite faction. Resigned.
	1882, November 14	Matthew Joseph Kenny	Home Rule League	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ^a William Vesey Fitzgerald (MP for Ennis 1808-1812 and 1813-1818) appears to be the same person as William Vesey-Fitzgerald, the MP from 1831 to 1832, although the biographical article in Wikipedia does not confirm this. Walker includes all three terms as MP for Ennis in one index entry.
• ^b Stooks Smith classifies O'Brien as a Whig MP, but the Wikipedia biographical article suggests he was a Conservative MP (i.e. a Tory) in 1828-1831.

Elections

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References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)