Galway County (UK Parliament constituency)

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Galway County County constituency
Created:
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons

The constituency of County Galway was an historic Irish constituency, comprised the whole of County Galway, except for the Borough of Galway. Before the Act of Union in 1801, its representatives sat at the Irish House of Commons. From 1801, they sat at the British House of Commons.

It returend between two and four Members of Parliament.

The constituency was abolished in 1885 and replaced by smaller constituencies in the county.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created ()

Year	First member	Second member
1613–1615	Valentine Blake, 1st Bt.
1634–1635	Valentine Blake, 3rd Bt.
1689	Walter Blake, 6th Bt.
1769	William Power Keating Trench
1783		Denis Daly
1797	Richard Le Poer Trench
1801		Richard Martin
1805	Denis Bowes Daly
1812		James Daly
1818	Richard Martin
1827	James Staunton Lambert
1830		Sir John Burke
1832	Thomas Barnewall Martin	James Daly
1835		John James Bodkin
1847	Thomas Burke	Christopher St. George
1852		Thomas Arthur Bellew
1857		William Henry Gregory
1865	Ulick de Burgh-Canning
1867	Hubert de Burgh-Canning
1871	Mitchell Henry
1872		John Philip Nolan
1872		William Le Poer Trench
1874		John Philip Nolan

The constituency was abolished in 1885 and replaced by the following constituencies:

• Galway Connemara
• Galway East
• Galway North
• Galway South

(Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page)

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)