Old Leighlin (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Old Leighlin
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Carlow
ProvinceLeinster
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Seats2
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Old Leighlin was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons, the lower house in the Irish Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland. It based in Old Leighlin, near the town of Leighlinbridge in County Carlow.[citation needed] It was a bishop's borough, controlled by the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.

The borough was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800, with effect from 1 January 1801.

Members of Parliament[]

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1634 James Cusack Richard FitzGerald Fitzgerald sat for Strabane. Replaced by
1639 James Cusack Roger Brereton Cusack sat for Ballyshannon. Replaced by Thomas Davills (expelled for rebellion)
1642 Walter Chambré (died)
1646 Peter Wybrants
1661 Sir Francis Butler
1689 Patriot Parliament
1692
1695 Richard Boyle
1703 James Agar
1713
1727
1745 Hon. Robert Jocelyn Thomas Carter
1757 Richard Rigby
May 1761 John Bourke Francis Andrews[a]
1761
1768 Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt
1773 John Blaquiere[b]
1776 Hugh Massy
1777 Robert Jephson
1783 Hon. Henry Luttrell[c] Hon. Arthur Acheson
1787
1790 Edward Cooke
1791 Patrick Duigenan
1798 Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Bt
1801 Constituency disenfranchised
Notes
  1. ^ Sat for Londonderry City.
  2. ^ Sir John Blaquiere from 1774.
  3. ^ Viscount Luttrell from 1785.

References[]

  • Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
  • Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J. (1978). A New History of Ireland 1534-1691. Oxford University Press.
  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
  • Return of Members of Parliament (1878) vol. ii, p. 607.
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