Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Appearance
Swords | |
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Formerborough constituency for theIrish House of Commons | |
County | County Dublin |
Borough | Swords |
? | –1801|
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Swordswas aconstituencyrepresented in theIrish House of Commonsto 1801.
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor[1]
- 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)[1]
- 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson )[1]
- 1639–1642 John Taylor[2]and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
- 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson[3]
- 1661–1666John Poveyand Sir William Tichborne[3]
1689–1801
[edit]Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1689Patriot Parliament | Francis Barnwall | Robert Russell | ||||
1692 | Richard Forster | John Reading | ||||
1695 | Thomas Ashe | |||||
1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | James Peppard | |||
1713 | Plunket Plunket | |||||
1715 | Richard Molesworth[4] | |||||
1727 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | Edward Bolton | ||||
1759 | Thomas Cobbe | |||||
1761 | Hamilton Gorges | |||||
1768 | John Hatch | John Damer | ||||
1776 | Thomas Cobbe | Charles King | ||||
1783 | Charles Cobbe | John Hatch | ||||
1790 | John Claudius Beresford | Eyre Massey | ||||
January 1798 | Francis Synge | Charles Cobbe | ||||
1798 | Marcus Beresford | |||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
Notes
[edit]- ^abcMcGrath, Bríd (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.
- ^"Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877".Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office. 1890.
- ^abParliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2.p. 614.
- ^from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
References
[edit]- Leigh Rayment's historicalList 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.