Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Baltimore | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1614 |
Abolished | 1801 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Baltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.
Boundaries and Boundary Changes[]
This constituency was based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.
Potwalloper[]
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. (Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801). A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or wallop, a cauldron, or pot.
History[]
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Baltimore was represented with two members.[1]
Members of Parliament, 1613–1801[]
Baltimore, Incorporated 25 March 1613.
- 1613–1615
- 1613 Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet
- 1613 Henry Piers
- 1634–1635
- 1634 , absent in England and replaced 1634 by James Travers
- 1634 Edward Skipwith,
- 1639–1641
- 1639
- 1639
- 1661–1666
- 1661
- 1661 Richard Townsend
1689–1801[]
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Daniel O'Donovan | Jeremiah O'Donovan | ||||
1692 | Thomas Beecher | |||||
1703 | Percy Freke | |||||
1707 | ||||||
1709 | ||||||
1713 | Michael Beecher | |||||
1715 | William Southwell | |||||
1721 | Sir Percy Freke, 2nd Bt | |||||
1727 | ||||||
1728 | Sir John Freke, 3rd Bt[note 1] | |||||
1761 | ||||||
1768 | ||||||
1771 | Jocelyn Deane | |||||
1777 | ||||||
1781 | James Chatterton | |||||
1783 | Viscount Sudley | Richard Longfield | ||||
1790 | Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt | |||||
1798 | ||||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 500
Bibliography[]
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
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has extra text (help) - Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 February 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
- T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
- Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8
- 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.
- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- Historic constituencies in County Cork
- 1614 establishments in Ireland
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies established in 1614
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800