Newcastle (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Newcastle was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Newcastle | |
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Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1801 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Newcastle, County Dublin was enfranchised by James I. By the late eighteenth century it had 13 electors, all non-resident. The patronage of the borough was sold by Lord Lanesborough to David La Touche in the 1770s.[1]
Members of Parliament
- 1613–1615 Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont and William Rolles [2]
- 1634–1635 Sir John Dongan and Patrick Sherlock [2]
- 1639–1642 Sir John Dongan and Sir Henry Talbot (both expelled for non-attendance) [2]
- 1642–1646 Edmond Keating (election declared void – replaced 1643 by Arthur Whyte) [3]
- 1646–1649 Henry Kenny and Cosny Molloy [3]
- 1661–1666 Peter Wybrant and Francis Paisley [3]
1689–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Thomas Arthur | John Talbot | ||||
1692 | Richard Morris | Daniel Reading | ||||
1695 | John Tench | Thomas Pooley | ||||
1703 | Daniel Reading | John South | ||||
1707 | Daniel Reading | |||||
1711 | Charles Monck | |||||
1713 | Edward Deane | |||||
1715 | Charles Monck | |||||
1726 | Anthony Sheppard | |||||
1727 | Robert Sandford | James Coghill | ||||
1735 | James Butler | |||||
1743 | John Butler | |||||
1761 | John FitzGibbon | |||||
1768 | William Stewart | |||||
1776 | Robert Gamble | |||||
1783 | David La Touche | John La Touche | ||||
1785 | Thomas Whaley | |||||
1790 | David La Touche | David La Touche | ||||
January 1798 | John La Touche [note 1] | |||||
1798 | David La Touche | |||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
Notes
- Chose to sit for Harristown
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References
- 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.
- E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, vol. II, p. 235.
- http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
- Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
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