County Louth (UK Parliament constituency)

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Louth County constituency
Created:	1801, 1918
Abolished:	1885, 1922
Type:	House of Commons

County Louth is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801-1885 and one in 1918-1922. It should be distinguished from the English constituency of Louth, Lincolnshire.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Louth, except for the Parliamentary boroughs of Drogheda and Dundalk in 1801-1885. Between 1885 and 1918 the county was divided into county division constituencies (North and South). In 1918 the entire county of Louth plus a small part of County Meath near Drogheda formed the constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1801 John Foster, later Baron Oriel (to 1822)
• 1801 William Charles Fortescue

• 1806 Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, later Earl of Roden

• 1807 John Jocelyn

• 1810 Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, later Earl of Roden

• 1820 John Jocelyn (to 1826)

• 1821 Thomas Henry Skeffington, later Viscount Ferrard

• 1824 John Leslie Foster (to 1830)

• 1826 Alexander Dawson (to Oct 1831)

• 1830 John McClintock

• 1831 Richard Lalor Shiel (to 1832)

• 1831 Sir Patrick Bellew, later Baron Bellew

• 1832 Thomas FitzGerald c Dec 1834
• 1832 Richard Montesquieu Bellew (to 1852)

• 1834 Sir Patrick Bellew, later Baron Bellew

• 1837 Henry Chester

• 1840 Thomas Fortescue

• 1841 Thomas Vesey Dawson

• 1847 Chichester Fortescue, later Baron Carlingford (to 1874)

• 1852 Tristram Kennedy

• 1857 John McClintock

• 1859 Richard Montesquieu Bellew

• 1865 Tristram Kennedy

• 1868 Matthew O'Reilly Dease

• 1874 Alexander Martin Sullivan (to May 1880)

• 1874 Philip Callan

• 1874 George Harley Kirk

• 1880 Philip Callan (to 1885)

• 1880 Alan Henry Bellingham

1885: Constituency abolished

• 1918: John J. O'Kelly, Sinn Féin

1922: Constituency abolished

[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)
• "County Louth: the Irish political revolution and the 1918 general election" by O. S. Kelly (MA thesis, 2006, UCD)