Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)
Tipperary | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1801–1885 | |
Number of members | Two |
Replaced by | East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary |
Tipperary, also known as Tipperary County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Tipperary, except the Parliamentary boroughs of Cashel (1801-1870) and Clonmel (1801-1885). In 1885 the constituency was divided into East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary.
Members of Parliament
Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1801 | Francis Mathew, Viscount Mathew (later Earl of Llandaff) | John Bagwell | ||||
17 Nov 1806 | Montague James Mathew | Whig | Francis Aldborough Prittie | Whig | ||
17 Jul 1818 | Richard Butler, Viscount Caher | |||||
2 Mar 1819 | William Bagwell | Tory | ||||
8 Apr 1819 | Francis Aldborough Prittie | Whig | ||||
28 Jun 1826 | John Hely Hutchinson (later Earl of Donoughmore) | Whig | ||||
21 Aug 1830 | Thomas Wyse | Whig | ||||
12 May 1831 | John Hely Hutchinson (later Earl of Donoughmore) | Whig | ||||
8 Aug 1832 | Robert Otway-Cave | |||||
17 Dec 1832 | Cornelius O'Callaghan | Richard Lalor Sheil | ||||
21 Jan 1835 | Robert Otway Cave | |||||
14 Jul 1841 | Valentine Maher | |||||
10 Feb 1844 | Nicholas Maher | |||||
21 Feb 1845 | Richard Albert Fitzgerald | |||||
11 Aug 1847 | Francis Scully | |||||
26 Jul 1852 | James Sadleir[1] | |||||
16 Mar 1857 | Daniel O'Donoghue | |||||
14 Apr 1857 | Laurence Waldron | |||||
24 Feb 1865 | Charles Moore | Liberal | ||||
24 Jul 1865 | John Blake Dillon | Liberal | ||||
17 Oct 1866 | Charles William White | Liberal | ||||
27 Nov 1869 | Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa[2] | Independent Nationalist | ||||
23 Feb 1870 | Denis Caulfield Heron | Liberal | ||||
14 Feb 1874 | Home Rule League | William Frederick Ormond O'Callaghan | Home Rule League | |||
16 Feb 1875 | John Mitchel[3] | Independent Nationalist | ||||
27 May 1875 | Stephen Moore | Conservative | ||||
16 May 1877 | Edmund Dwyer Gray | Home Rule League | ||||
8 Apr 1880 | Patrick James Smyth | Home Rule League | John Dillon | Home Rule League | ||
23 Mar 1883 | Thomas Mayne | Home Rule League | ||||
12 Jan 1885 | John O'Connor | Home Rule League | ||||
1885 | Constituency divided: see East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary |
Elections
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General Election 9 August 1830: Tipperary | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Whig | Francis Aldborough Prittie | 757 | N/A | ||
Whig | Thomas Wyse | 577 | N/A | ||
Tory | John Hely Hutchison | 537 | N/A | ||
Tory | Roe | N/A | |||
Turnout | N/A | ||||
- 1869 In the by-election of that year, O'Donovan Rossa was returned to the Commons for the Tipperary. He defeated the Liberal Catholic Denis Caulfield Heron by 1054 to 898 votes.[4] The election was declared invalid because he was an imprisoned felon.
References
- ↑ expelled 16 Feb 1857
- ↑ as a convicted felon, he was declared ineligible to sit 10 Feb 1870
- ↑ he was adjudged to be a convicted felon and thus ineligible to be elected 18 Feb 1875. At the subsequent by-election held on 13 Mar 1875, he was again returned. He died a week later and the seat was assigned to Stephen Moore (the defeated candidate at the 13 Mar by-election) on 27 May 1875
- ↑ A. M. Sullivan, New Ireland, London, n.d. [c. 1877], pp. 329–330. Ricorso profile of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa claims the result was 1131 to 1028.
Sources
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
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