Coleraine (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Coleraine
Former constituency
Created  ()
Post-Union Coleraine
Type Irish House of Commons

Coleraine was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

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History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Coleraine was not represented.[1] The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.

Members of Parliament

1692–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Coleraine was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692 John Davys William Leslie
1695 Sir Arthur Langford, 2nd Bt Samuel Jackson
September 1703 Richard Gorges [note 1]
1703 Thomas Pearce
1713 Frederick Hamilton George Lowther
1715 Sir Marcus Beresford, 4th Bt
1721 Francis Burton
1727 Henry Carey Thomas Jackson
1751 Richard Jackson
1757 Hamilton Gorges
1761 Lord La Poer
1763 George Paul Monck
1768 John Beresford [note 2]
August 1768 Theophilus Jones
1776 Hon. Richard Annesley
1783 John Beresford [note 3]
October 1783 Arthur Wolfe
1789 George Jackson John Beresford [note 4]
1791 George FitzGerald Hill
1795 William Domville Stanley Monck
1796 John Staunton Rochfort
January 1798 Earl of Tyrone [note 5] John Beresford [note 6]
1798 John Beresford Walter Jones
1801 Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Coleraine

Notes

  1. ^ Also elected for Bandonbridge in 1703, for which he chose to sit
  2. ^ Also elected for Waterford County in 1768, for which he chose to sit
  3. ^ Also elected for Waterford County in 1783, for which he chose to sit
  4. ^ Also elected for Waterford County in 1789, for which he chose to sit
  5. ^ Also elected for Londonderry County in 1798, for which he chose to sit
  6. ^ Also elected for Waterford County in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 501

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