Fethard (County Wexford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Not to be confused with Fethard (County Tipperary) (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Fethard Former constituency
Created	1613 (1613)
Post-Union	Disenfranchised
Type	Irish House of Commons

Fethard was a constituency in County Wexford represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Contents

1 History
2 Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
- 2.1 1689–1801
- 2.2 Notes
3 References
4 Bibliography

History

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

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		James Porter			Nicholas Stafford
1692		Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Bt			Dudley Loftus
1695					Sir Nicholas Loftus
1703					Thomas Palliser
1710		Nicholas Loftus
1713		Hugh Morgan
1715		Henry Ponsonby
1727		James Stopford			George Houghton
1733					Philip Doyne
1755					Charles Tottenham
1759		Nicholas Hume-Loftus ^{[note 1]}			Charles Tottenham
1761					Hon. Nicholas Hume-Loftus
1764					William Alcock
1767		John Tottenham			William Alcock
1768		John Tottenham			Arthur Loftus
1776		Charles Tottenham ^{[note 2]}			Robert Hellen
1779		Charles Tottenham ^{[note 2]}			Ponsonby Tottenham
1783		Ephraim Carroll			Ponsonby Tottenham
1790		Charles Tottenham			Thomas Loftus
January 1793					Henry Hatton
1793					Luke Fox
1796		William Loftus			Luke Fox
1798		Henry Alcock			Charles Eustace
1799		George Harrison Reade			Charles Eustace
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

^ Styled as The Honourable from 1763 and as Viscount Loftus from 1766
^ Also elected for Wexford Borough in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References

^ O'Hart (2007), p. 504

Bibliography

O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0788419277.
Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons

Parliamentary constituencies in County Wexford

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Bannow (????–1800) · Clonmines (????–1800) · Enniscorthy (1613–1800) · Fethard (1613–1800) · Gorey (????–1800) · New Ross (????–1800) · Wexford Borough (????–1800) · Wexford County (????–1800) · Taghmon (????–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	New Ross (1801–1885) · Wexford County (1801–1885) · Wexford Borough (1801–1885) · North Wexford (1885–1922) · South Wexford (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Wexford (1921– )

European Parliament 1979–present	Leinster (1979–2004) · East (2004– )

Irish counties: Carlow · Cavan · Clare · Cork · Donegal · Dublin · Galway · Kerry · Kildare · Kilkenny · Laois · Leitrim · Limerick · Longford · Louth · Mayo · Meath · Monaghan · Offaly · Roscommon · Sligo · Tipperary · Waterford · Westmeath · Wexford · Wicklow