Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Swords
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1801
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Members of Parliament[]

  • 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]
  • 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne [3]

1689–1801[]

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament
1692
1695
1703 Robert Molesworth Whig
1713
1715 Richard Molesworth[4]
1727 Edward Bolton
1759 Thomas Cobbe
1761
1768
1776 Thomas Cobbe
1783 Charles Cobbe
1790 John Claudius Beresford Eyre Massey
January 1798 Francis Synge
1798 Marcus Beresford
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. hdl:2262/77206.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
  4. ^ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth

References[]

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