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Carrickfergus is a 19th-century United Kingdom Parliament constituency , in Northern Ireland , represented, between 1801 and 1885, by one MP .
Boundaries
This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Carrickfergus in County Antrim .
Members of Parliament
Election
Member
Party
Note
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1801, January 1
Noah Dalway
1801: Co-opted
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1802, July 30
Lord Spencer Chichester
Tory
Resigned
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1807, April 29
James Craig
Whig
Initially elected four weeks earlier, in the 31 March 1807 Carrickfergus by-election
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1812, November 5
Arthur Chichester
Tory
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1818, July 1
Earl of Belfast
Tory
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1820, March 16
Sir Arthur Chichester, Bt
Tory
Created Baronet 13 September 1821
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1830, August 10
Lord George Augusta Hill
Whig
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1832, December 9
Conway Richard Dobbs
Conservative 1
Election declared void on petition and writ suspended March 1833
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1835, January 10
Peter Kirk
Conservative
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1847, August 3
Hon. Wellington Stapleton-Cotton
Conservative
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1857, April 2
William Cary Dobbs
Conservative
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1859, May 6
Robert Torrens
Conservative
1868, November 21
Marriott Dalway [n 1] [1] [2] [3]
Liberal-Conservative
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1880, April 2
Thomas Greer
Conservative
Last MP for the constituency
1885
Constituency abolished
Supplemental Note:-
1 Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election .
Election results
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Notes and References
Notes
^ a b c d Various sources refer to Dalway as 'Conservative', 'Liberal', and 'Liberal-Conservative'. Due to his support for Gladstone and Home Rule, he has been designated a 'Liberal-Conservative'
References