Lisburn (UK Parliament constituency)

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

Lisburn 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 Lisburn in County Antrim.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party Note
1801, January 1 George Hatton Tory 1801: Co-opted
1802, July 12 Earl of Yarmouth Tory
1812, October 20 Lord Henry Seymour Moore Tory
1818, June 29 John Leslie Foster Tory Also returned by and elected to sit for Armagh City
1819, February 22 Horace Beauchamp Seymour Tory
1826, June 16 Henry Meynell Tory Re-elected as a Conservative candidate
1832, December 15 Conservative 1
1847, August 5 Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour Peelite Died 23 November 1851
1852, January 5 Sir James Emerson Tennent Conservative Resigned
1852, December 11 Roger Johnson Smyth 2 Liberal 3 Died 19 September 1853
1853, October 14 Jonathan Joseph Richardson 4 Liberal 3 Re-elected as a Conservative candidate
1859, May 4 Conservative Resigned
1863, February 23 John Doherty Barbour Liberal Unseated on petition - new writ issued
1863, June 23 Edward Wingfield Verner Conservative Resigned
1873, February 19 Sir Richard Wallace, Bt Conservative Last MP for the constituency
1885 Constituency abolished

Supplemental Notes:-

  • 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.
  • 2 Smyth was classified by Walker as a Liberal. Stenton however describes him as "a moderate Conservative, in favour of free trade ...".
  • 3 Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.
  • 4 Walker suggests J.J. Richardson (elected 1853), was a different person from Jonathan Richardson (elected as a Liberal in 1857 and as a Conservative in 1859). Stenton, whose entry for the MP is mostly based upon the 1862 edition of Dod's Parliamentary Companion, states that Jonathan Richardson was "First returned for Lisburn Oct. 1853, and sat until he accepted Chiltern Hundreds Feb. 1863".

[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)
  • Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)