Carrickfergus (UK Parliament constituency)

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Carrickfergus Borough constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons

Carrickfergus is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Carrickfergus in County Antrim.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Noah Dalway		1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 30	Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester	Tory	Resigned
	1807, March 31	James Craig	Whig
	1812, November 5	Arthur Chichester	Tory
	1818, July 1	Earl of Belfast	Tory
	1820, March 16	Sir Arthur Chichester, Bt	Tory	Created Baronet 13 September 1821
	1830, August 10	Lord George Augusta Hill	Whig
	1832, December 9	Conway Richard Dobbs	Conservative 1	Election declared void on petition and writ suspended March 1833
	1835, January 10	Peter Kirk	Conservative
	1847, August 3	Hon. Wellington Stapleton-Cotton	Conservative
	1857, April 2	William Cary Dobbs	Conservative
	1859, May 6	Robert Torrens	Conservative
	1868, November 21	Marriott Robert Dalway	Conservative
	1880, April 2	Thomas Greer	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Supplemental Note:-

• ¹ Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.

[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)