Carysfort (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Carysfort
Former Borough constituency
Created 1629 (1629)
Post-Union Disenfranchised
Type Irish House of Commons

Carysfort was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Contents

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Carysfort was represented with two members.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1629–1801

Guildford Slingsby was elected to the seat in 1634.[2]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Hugh Byrne Pierce Archbold [note 1]
1689 Bartholomew Polewheele
1692 Richard Edwards Thomas Whitshed
1695 William Hoey Edward Stratford
1698 Hugh Eccles
September 1703 Thomas Burroughs [note 2]
1703 Richard Thompson
1713 Robert Allen
1715 John Sale
1717 Edward Webster
1727 James Tynte [note 3]
1728 Richard Hull
1733 Hon. John Allen
1743 Stephen Trotter
1761 Sir William Osborne, 8th Bt [note 4] William Mayne [note 5]
1769 Sir Robert Deane, 5th Bt
1771 Sir Robert Deane, 6th Bt
1777 Thomas Osborne [note 6] Warden Flood
October 1783 Sir William Osborne, 8th Bt
1783 John Proby Osborne
1788 Alleyne FitzHerbert
1790 Charles Osborne
1798 Henry Osborne
1799 Robert Aldridge
1800 Mark Singleton
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ Elected, but never took his seat
  2. ^ Declared not duly elected in 1703
  3. ^ Also elected for Youghal in 1727, for which he chose to sit
  4. ^ Also elected for Dungarvan in 1768, for which he chose to sit
  5. ^ Created a baronet in 1763
  6. ^ Succeeded as 9th Baronet in 1783

References

  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 504
  2. ^ Guildford Slingsby at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Bibliography

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