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Bannow
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Bannow was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the borough of Bannow in County Wexford.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Bannow was represented with two members.[1] Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

  • 1634–1635: Pierce Neville and Walter Furlong (or Walter Stapleton) [2]
  • 1639–1649: Christopher Hollywood (expelled 1642) and Gerald Cheevers (expelled 1642)[2]
  • 1661–1666: Dr Dudley Loftus and Henry Warren [3]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Plowden style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Alexius Stafford
1692 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nathaniel Boyse rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Cliffe
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Boyse
1725 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Samuel Boyse
1727 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Ogle
1730 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Harrison
1737 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nicholas Hume-Loftus [note 1]
1747 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Henry Loftus
1761 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Mitchell
1768 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Tottenham style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Hellen
1776 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Loftus style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
1790 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Ponsonby Tottenham rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Ephraim Carroll
1798 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Loftus
1799 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Shaw
February 1800 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Joseph McClean
March 1800 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Prior
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ Styled as The Honourable from 1751

References

  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 504
  2. ^ a b http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  3. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 638.

Bibliography

  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7. {{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.
  • Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
  • T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
  • 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.