Kilkenny City (UK Parliament constituency)

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Kilkenny City
Borough constituency
Created: 1801
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: One

Kilkenny City was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

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[edit] Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Kilkenny in County Kilkenny.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party Note
1801, January 1 William Talbot 1801: Co-opted. Resigned.
1802, March 2 Richard Archdall
1802, July 22 Hon. Charles Harward Butler Whig Resigned
1809, February 4 Robert Williams
1812, October 24 Overington Blunden Resigned
1814, May 27 Hon. Charles Harward Butler Whig
1820, April 7 Rt Hon. Denis Browne Tory
1826, June 22 John Doherty
1830, August 11 Nicholas Philpot Leader Whig
1832, December 13 Richard Sullivan Repeal Association Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
1835, January 10 Liberal Resigned
1836, May 17 Daniel O'Connell Repeal Association
1837, August 7 Joseph Hume Liberal
1841, July 3 John O'Connell Repeal Association 1847: Also returned by and elected to sit for Limerick
1847, December 18 Michael Sullivan Repeal Association Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
1852, July 10 Liberal Joined the Independent Irish Party
1852 Independent Irish Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
1859, May 5 Liberal
1865, July 13 Sir John Gray Liberal Re-elected as a Home Rule League candidate
1874, February 2 Home Rule League Died
1875, April 28 Benjamin Whitworth Home Rule League Resigned
1880, February 26 John Francis Smithwick Home Rule League
Years Member Party
1882-1886 John Francis Smithwick Irish Parliamentary Party
1886-1890 Thomas Quinn Irish Parliamentary Party
1890-1891 Parnellite
1891-1892 Anti-Parnellite
1892-1895 Thomas Bartholomew Curran Anti-Parnellite
1895-1900 Patrick O'Brien Parnellite
1900-1917 Irish Parliamentary Party
1917-1918 W. T. Cosgrave Sinn Féin

[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)