Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
| Swords | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | |
| Abolished | 1801 |
| Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
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 | Francis Barnwall | Robert Russell | ||||
| 1692 | Richard Forster | John Reading | ||||
| 1695 | Thomas Ashe | |||||
| 1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | James Peppard | |||
| 1713 | Plunket Plunket | |||||
| 1715 | Richard Molesworth [4] | |||||
| 1727 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | Edward Bolton | ||||
| 1759 | Thomas Cobbe | |||||
| 1761 | Hamilton Gorges | |||||
| 1768 | John Hatch | John Damer | ||||
| 1776 | Thomas Cobbe | Charles King | ||||
| 1783 | Charles Cobbe | John Hatch | ||||
| 1790 | John Claudius Beresford | Eyre Massey | ||||
| January 1798 | Francis Synge | Charles Cobbe | ||||
| 1798 | Marcus Beresford | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
- http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
- https://archive.org/stream/chroniclesofcoun00grif/chroniclesofcoun00grif_djvu.txt
- 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 Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
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