Donegal Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Donegal Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. It is now represented in the Dáil.
Donegal | |
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Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1613 |
Abolished | 1800 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1613 | William Crofton | Walter White | ||||
1634 | William Crofton | Gilbert Domville | ||||
1639 | Andrew Wilson | William Dixon | ||||
1661 | Henry Brooke[note 1] | Thomas Juxon | ||||
1689 | Donegal Borough was not represented in the Patriot Parliament[2] | |||||
1692 | William Conolly | Whig | John Hamilton | |||
1695 | William Gore | |||||
1703 | Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt | Whig | Richard Jones | |||
1713 | Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Bt [note 2] | Whig | George Macartney | |||
1715 | Henry Maxwell | Robert Miller | ||||
1725 | Alexander Montgomery | |||||
1727 | Arthur Gore [note 3] | |||||
1730 | John Folliott | |||||
1759 | Hon. Arthur Saunders Gore | |||||
1761 | Robert Doyne | John Knox | ||||
1768 | Viscount Sudley | Richard Gore | ||||
1774 | Barry Yelverton [note 4] | Patriot | ||||
1776 | James Cuffe [note 5] | |||||
June 1776 | Henry Vaughan Brooke | |||||
1777 | Robert Longfield | |||||
1779 | Henry Cope | |||||
October 1783 | Henry Hatton | Viscount Sudley [note 6] | ||||
1783 | Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt | |||||
1790 | William Downes | Humphrey Butler | ||||
1797 | William Keller | |||||
1798 | Hugh O'Donnell | William Cusack-Smith | ||||
1799 | Charles Kendal Bushe | |||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
Notes
- Knighted in 1664[1]
- Also elected for Mayo in 1715, for which he chose to sit
- Succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1741
- Also elected for Carrickfergus in 1776, for which he chose to sit
- Also elected for Mayo in 1776, for which he chose to sit
- Also elected for Baltimore in 1783, for which he chose to sit
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References
- W. A. Shaw and G. D. Burtchaell, The Knights of England, vol. II (1906) p. 239.
- O'Hart (2007), p. 501
Bibliography
- Return of Members of Parliament, Part II (1878).
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
- 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.
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