Carlingford (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Carlingford | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Louth |
| Borough | Carlingford |
| –1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Carlingford was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
History[edit]
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Carlingford was represented with two members.[1]
Members of Parliament[edit]
- 1559: John Neill and Sir Henry Radclyffe[2]
- 1585: Robert Neill and Rice ap Hugh[2]
- 1613–1615: Marmaduke Whitechurch and Sir Roger Hope[3]
- 1634–1635: John Travers and Joshua Carpenter [4]
- 1639–1643: Joshua Carpenter (died and replaced 1642 by Chichester Fortescue) and Bernard Saunders [2] (Fortescue and Saunders both died in office 1642)[5]
- 1643–1649 Edward Trevor and Edmund Keating [5]
- 1661–1666: Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Edward Vernon [5]
1689–1801[edit]
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Christopher Peppard FitzIgnatius | Bryan Dermod | ||||
| 1692 | Elnathan Lum | Zaccheus Sedgwick | ||||
| August 1695 | Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Bt | |||||
| 1695 | Elnathan Lum | |||||
| 1703 | Charles Dering | Arthur Hill | ||||
| 1705 | William Balfour | |||||
| 1713 | Sir Hans Hamilton, 2nd Bt | James Stannus | ||||
| 1715 | Blayney Townley | |||||
| 1721 | William Stannus | |||||
| 1723 | Robert Ross | |||||
| 1727 | Harry Townley | |||||
| 1741 | John Macarell | |||||
| 1757 | William Townley-Balfour | |||||
| 1760 | Blayney Townley-Balfour | |||||
| 1768 | Robert Ross | |||||
| 1776 | Thomas Knox[note 1] | Theophilus Blakeney | ||||
| 1783 | Sir John Blaquiere [note 2] | Thomas Coghlan | ||||
| 1790 | Sir Charles des Voeux, 1st Bt | James Blaquiere | ||||
| January 1798 | Robert Ross[note 3] | Robert Johnson[note 4] | ||||
| 1798 | Richard Magenis | Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt | ||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
- ^ a b c A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. 1998.
- ^ Stubbs, Major-General (1919). "County Louth Representatives in the Irish Parliament, 1613-1758". Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society. 4 (4): 311–317. doi:10.2307/27729225. JSTOR 27729225.
- ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 225.
- ^ a b c Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 626.
Bibliography[edit]
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
- 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.