Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tipperary County constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	Two

A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Tipperary, except the Parliamentary boroughs of Cashel (1801-1870) and Clonmel (1801-1885). In 1885 the constituency was divided into East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1832: Robert Otway-Cave
• 1835 – 1844: Robert Otway-Cave
• 1865: John Blake Dillon
• 1869: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
• 1869 – 1874: Denis Caulfield Heron
• 1877 – 1880: Edmund Dwyer Gray

[edit] Elections

General Election 9 August 1830: Tipperary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Francis Aldborough Prittie	757		N/A
	Whig	Thomas Wyse	577		N/A
	Tory	John Hely Hutchison	537		N/A
	Tory	Roe			N/A
Turnout					N/A

• 1869 In the by-election of that year, O'Donovan Rossa was returned to the the Commons for the Tipperary. He defeated the Liberal Catholic Denis Caulfield Heron by 1054 to 898 votes.^[1] The election was declared invalid because he was an imprisoned felon.

[edit] References

1. ^ A. M. Sullivan, New Ireland, London, n.d. [c. 1877], pp. 329–330. The Princess Grace Irish Library profile of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa claims the result was 1131 to 1028.

• 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)