For the county constituency, see County Wicklow (Parliament of Ireland constituency).
Wicklow | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Wicklow |
Borough | Wicklow |
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801) | |
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Wicklow was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Wicklow in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.
Members of Parliament
- 1613–1615 Sir William Ussher and Sir Laurence Esmonde
- 1634–1635 William Ussher and James Byrne
- 1639–1649 Richard Parsons (died and replaced in 1642 by John Hill. Hill then died and was replaced in 1645 by Joshua Carpenter) and John Hoey
- 1661–1665 Robert Shapcote and Roger Sotheby
1689–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Francis Toole | Thomas Byrne | ||||
1692 | Nathaniel King | Sir Richard Reynell, 2nd Baronet | ||||
1695 | William Robinson | |||||
1696 | Christopher Carleton | |||||
1703 | John Price | |||||
1704 | Sir William Fownes | |||||
1705 | Joshua Dawson | |||||
1713 | Henry Percy | |||||
1715 | Richard Edwards | Samuel Walter Whitshed | ||||
1723 | James Whitshed | |||||
1735 | Thomas Theaker | |||||
1747 | James Whitshed | |||||
1751 | Edmund Sexton Pery | Patriot | ||||
1761 | William Tighe | William Whitshed | ||||
1767 | Richard William Tighe | |||||
1768 | Edward Tighe | |||||
1771 | John Talbot Dillon | |||||
1776 | Sir William Fownes, 2nd Bt | |||||
1777 | Hon. Robert Ward | |||||
1778 | George Ponsonby | |||||
October 1783 | John Lloyd | Edward Tighe | ||||
1783 | Samuel Hayes | |||||
1790 | William Tighe | |||||
1798 | Daniel Gahan | William Henry Armstrong | ||||
1800 | Henry Grattan | Patriot | ||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
References
- McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 639.
- 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.
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Parliament of Ireland to 1800 |
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Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918 |
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Dáil Éireann 1918–present |
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European Parliament 1979–present | |||||||
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