Killybegs (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Killybegs
Former constituency
Created 1616 (1616)
Post-Union Disenfranchised
Type Irish House of Commons

Killybegs was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Contents

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Killybegs was not represented.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1616–1801

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Killybegs was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692 Henry Conyngham Thomas Smith
1695 Charles Hamilton Charles Melvyn
1703 Benjamin Parry
1710 Thomas Pearson
1713 Henry Maxwell
1715 Charles Vane
1719 Robert Colvill
1727 William Conyngham Henry Conyngham
1739 Leslie Corry
1741 Henry Conyngham
1749 Henry Gore
1753 Francis Pierpoint Burton
1761 Richard Jones William Gerard Hamilton
1768 Henry Hamilton [note 1] Thomas Allan
1776 William Burton [note 2]
1777 John Knox [note 3]
October 1783 William Burton Conyngham James FitzGerald [note 4]
1783 William Colvill
May 1790 Francis Nathaniel Burton [note 5] John Wolfe
1790 Sir Henry Cavendish, 2nd Bt
January 1798 Francis Nathaniel Burton [note 6] Richard Archdall
1798 Francis McNamara
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ Created a baronet in 1775
  2. ^ Also elected for Ennis in 1776, for which he chose to sit
  3. ^ Styles as The Honourable from 1781
  4. ^ Also elected for Tulsk in 1783, for which he chose to sit
  5. ^ Also elected for Clare in 1790, for which he chose to sit
  6. ^ Also elected for Clare in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

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

Bibliography

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