Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)
A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.
Members of Parliament
Date | First member | First party | Second member | Second party |
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1801, 1 January |
Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keatinge | |
John La Touche | Whig |
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1802, 20 July |
Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald | Whig |
Robert La Touche |
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1806, 21 November |
Whig |
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1807, 21 May |
Lord Henry FitzGerald [1] | Whig |
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1813, 23 March |
Lord William Charles O'Brien FitzGerald | Whig |
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1830, 18 August |
Richard More O'Ferrall [2] | Whig |
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1831, 9 May |
Sir Josiah William Hort, Bt | Whig |
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1832, 21 December |
Edward Ruthven [3] | Repeal Association |
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1837, 11 August |
Robert Archbold | Whig |
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1847, 18 August |
Marquess of Kildare | Whig |
Richard Southwell Bourke (became Lord Naas) | Conservative |
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1852, 13 March |
William Henry Ford Cogan [4] | Whig |
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1852, 26 July |
David O'Connor Henchy [5] | Whig |
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1859, 19 May |
Richard More O'Ferrall [6] | Whig |
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1859, 6 June |
Liberal |
Liberal |
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1865, 19 July |
Lord Otho Augustus FitzGerald [7] | Liberal |
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1874, 12 February |
Charles Henry Meldon [8] | Home Rule League |
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1880, 5 April |
James Leahy [9] | Home Rule League |
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1882 |
Irish Parliamentary |
Irish Parliamentary |
- ↑ Resigned, 1813
- ↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
- ↑ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
- ↑ Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857 and 1859. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election. Re-elected as a Liberal in 1865, 1868 and 1874.
- ↑ Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857.
- ↑ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
- ↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.
- ↑ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
- ↑ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
Elections
References