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County Limerick , also known as Limerick County , was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Limerick , except for the Parliamentary borough of Limerick .
Members of Parliament
Year
1st Member
1st Party
2nd Member
2nd Party
1801, 1 Jan
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John Waller
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William Odell
1802, 22 July
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Charles Silver Oliver
1806, 22 November
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Windham Quin , later Earl of Dunraven & Mt Earl
Tory [1]
1818, 8 July
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Richard FitzGibbon , later Earl of Clare
Whig [1] [2]
1820, 30 March
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Standish O'Grady , later Viscount Guillamore
Whig [1]
1826, 23 Jun
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Thomas Lloyd
Tory [1]
1830, 2 Feb
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Standish O'Grady , later Viscount Guillamore[3]
Whig [1]
1830, 3 May
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James Hewitt Massy Dawson
Tory [4]
1830, 10 Aug
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Standish O'Grady , later Viscount Guillamore
Whig [1]
1835, 15 Jan
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William Smith O'Brien [5]
Whig [1] [6] [2]
1841, 10 Jul
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Caleb Powell
Whig [1]
1847, 14 Aug
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Irish Confederation [7]
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William Monsell , later Baron Emly
Peelite [8] [9] [10]
1849, 1 Jun
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Samuel Dickson
Peelite [11]
1850, 14 Dec
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Wyndham Goold
Whig [12] [13] [14]
1854, Dec
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Stephen de Vere
Whig [15]
1859, 16 May
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Samuel Auchmuty Dickson
Conservative [7]
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Liberal [7]
1865, 19 Jul
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Edward John Synan
Liberal [7]
1874, 11 Feb
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Home Rule [7]
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William Henry O'Sullivan
Home Rule [7]
1885
Constituency divided: see East Limerick and West Limerick
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
Lloyd's death caused a by-election.
On petition, O'Grady was unseated in favour of Massy Dawson.
Elections in the 1840s
O'Brien was adjudged guilty of high treason , causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s
Dickson's death caused a by-election.
Monsell was appointed a clerk of ordnance, requiring a by-election.
Goold's death caused a by-election.
Monsell was appointed President of the Board of Health , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
Monsell was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Monsell was appointed Postmaster General of the United Kingdom , requiring a by-election.
Monsell was created a peer in January 1874, voiding his seat, and a writ was to be issued for a by-election. However, this was pre-empted by the dissolution of Parliament later that month
Elections in the 1880s
Notes
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. p. 232. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via Google Books .
^ a b Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . pp. 91, 166. Retrieved 24 August 2018 – via Google Books .
^ O'Grady's s name was erased from the return and that of James Hewitt Massy Dawson substituted 3 May 1830
^ Salmon, Philip. "MASSY (afterwards MASSY DAWSON), James Hewitt (1779-1834), of Ballynacourte, co. Tipperary and 87 Gloucester Place, Mdx" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 17 May 2020 .
^ O'Brien was found guilty of high treason in Oct 1848
^ "Limerick Chronicle" . 4 August 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127 .
^ "Election Details" . The Examiner . 14 August 1847. pp. 8–11. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Northern Whig" . 14 August 1847. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ Potter, Matthew. "William Monsell, First Baron Emly of Terboe" (PDF) . The Old Limerick Journal : 58–63. Retrieved 5 October 2018 .
^ "State of the Country" . Westmeath Independent . 2 June 1849. p. 3. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Ireland" . Reading Mercury . 21 December 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "The League in Limerick" . Dublin Weekly Nation . 14 December 1850. p. 8. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ a b "Weekly Retrospect" . Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury . 21 December 1850. p. 5. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Morning Advertiser" . 1 December 1854. p. 5. Retrieved 5 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ a b c Farrell, Stephen. "Co. Limerick" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 17 May 2020 .
References