Carlingford (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Carlingford | |
|---|---|
| Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | |
| Abolished | 1801 |
| Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Carlingford was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Carlingford was represented with two members.[1]
Members of Parliament
- 1559: John Neill and Sir Henry Radclyffe [2]
- 1585: Robert Neill and Rice ap Hugh [2]
- 1613–1615: Marmaduke Whitechurch and Sir Roger Hope [3]
- 1634–1635: John Travers and Joshua Carpenter [4]
- 1639–1643: Joshua Carpenter (died and replaced 1642 by Chichester Fortescue) and Bernard Saunders [2] (Fortescue and Saunders both died in office 1642) [5]
- 1643–1649 Edward Trevor and Edmund Keating [5]
- 1661–1666: Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Edward Vernon [5]
1689–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Christopher Peppard FitzIgnatius | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Bryan Dermod | ||
| 1692 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Elnathan Lum | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Zaccheus Sedgwick | ||
| August 1695 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Bt | ||||
| 1695 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Elnathan Lum | ||||
| 1703 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Charles Dering | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Arthur Hill | ||
| 1705 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Balfour | ||||
| 1713 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Hans Hamilton, 2nd Bt | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Stannus | ||
| 1715 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Blayney Townley | ||||
| 1721 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Stannus | ||||
| 1723 | rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Ross | ||||
| 1727 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Harry Townley | ||||
| 1741 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Macarell | ||||
| 1757 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Townley-Balfour | ||||
| 1760 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Blayney Townley-Balfour | ||||
| 1768 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Ross | ||||
| 1776 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Knox [note 1] | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Theophilus Blakeney | ||
| 1783 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir John Blaquiere [note 2] | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Coghlan | ||
| 1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Charles des Voeux, 1st Bt | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | James Blaquiere | ||
| January 1798 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Ross [note 3] | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Johnson [note 4] | ||
| 1798 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Richard Magenis | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt | ||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
References
- ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 502
- ^ a b c A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. 1998.
- ^ Stubbs, Major-General (1919). "County Louth Representatives in the Irish Parliament, 1613-1758". Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society. 4 (4): 311–317. doi:10.2307/27729225. JSTOR 27729225.
- ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 225.
- ^ a b c Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 626.
Bibliography
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - 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.