Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Swords | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | |
| Abolished | 1801 |
| Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Members of Parliament
- 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
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis Barnwall | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Russell | ||
| 1692 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Forster | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Reading | ||
| 1695 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Ashe | ||||
| 1703 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whigs (British political party)/meta/color" | | Robert Molesworth | Whig | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Peppard | |
| 1713 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Plunket Plunket | ||||
| 1715 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Molesworth [4] | ||||
| 1727 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Bolton | ||
| 1759 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Cobbe | ||||
| 1761 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hamilton Gorges | ||||
| 1768 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Hatch | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Damer | ||
| 1776 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Cobbe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles King | ||
| 1783 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Cobbe | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Hatch | ||
| 1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Claudius Beresford | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Eyre Massey | ||
| January 1798 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Francis Synge | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Cobbe | ||
| 1798 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Marcus Beresford | ||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
- ^ a b c http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/chroniclesofcoun00grif/chroniclesofcoun00grif_djvu.txt
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
- ^ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
References
- 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.