Wexford Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

For other similarly named constituencies, see Wexford (constituency) (disambiguation).

Wexford Borough
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Seats	One

Wexford Borough was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Wexford in County Wexford.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1801-01-01	Francis Leigh		1801: Co-opted; Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1801-02-20	Ponsonby Tottenham
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1802-07-09	Richard Nevill 1	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1806-11-10	Sir Robert Wigram, Bt	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1807-05-21	Richard Nevill 1	Tory	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1810-03-03	Captain Peter Parker R.N.	Tory	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1811-07-01	Richard Nevill 1	Tory	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1813-03-03	Vice Admiral John Fish	Tory	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1814-08-09	Richard Nevill 1	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Ulster)
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1819-03-01	Captain Henry Evans R.N.	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1820-03-20	William Wigram	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1826-06-19	Rear Admiral Henry Evans	Tory	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1829-06-03	Robert Wigram 2	Tory	Unseated on petition
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1830-03-15 3	Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, Bt	Tory	Declared duly elected
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1830-08-07	William Wigram	Tory	Unseated on petition
style="background-color: Template:Ultra-Tory/meta/color" |	1831-02-21 3	Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, Bt	Ultra-Tory	Declared duly elected
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1831-05-06	Charles Arthur Walker	Whig	Re-elected as a candidate of the Repeal Association
style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" |	1832-12-14		Repeal Association	Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1835-01-12		Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1841-07-12	Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bt	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Repeal Association/meta/color" |	1847-08-04	John Thomas Devereux	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1852-07-09		Liberal	Became a member of the Independent Irish Party
style="background-color: Template:Independent Irish Party/meta/color" |	1852 4		Independent Irish	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1857-03-20		Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1859-05-03	John Edward Redmond	Liberal	The grand uncle of John Redmond (1856–1918)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1865-07-17	Richard Joseph Devereux	Liberal	Resigned
style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" |	1872-04-26	William Archer Redmond	Home Rule League	The grandfather of William Redmond (1886–1932). Died 1880.
style="background-color: Template:Home Rule League/meta/color" |	1880-11-24	Timothy Michael Healy	Home Rule League	Joined new organisation
style="background-color: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color" |	1882 4		Irish Parliamentary	Resigned to contest Monaghan
style="background-color: Template:Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color" |	1883-07-17	Willie Redmond	Irish Parliamentary	Last MP for the constituency
1885-11-18		Constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ¹ Stooks Smith names the MP 1802-1806 as Richard Neville Furness, 1807-1810 as Richard Neville, 1811-1813 as Robert Neville and 1814-1819 as Richard Neville. Walker names the MP for all these terms as Richard Nevill.
• ² From 1832 known as Robert Fitzwygram.
• ³ Not an election - date when the previous member was unseated and the petitioner was declared duly elected.
• ⁴ Not an election - change of party allegiance.

References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)