Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Swords | |
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Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1801 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
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 | ||
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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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
- ^ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
References[]
- 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.
Categories:
- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- Historic constituencies in County Dublin
- Swords, Dublin
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800