Carysfort (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Carysfort was a borough constituency for Carysfort, County Wicklow represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Carysfort
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1629
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

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

Members of Parliament, 1634–1801

• 1634–1635 Guildford Slingsby.[2] and John Hoey [3]
• 1639–1649 Philip Mainwaring and Francis Cosbie [3]
• 1661–1666 Thomas Maule and John Boswell [3]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Hugh Byrne			Pierce Archbold [note 1]
1689					Bartholomew Polewheele
1692		Richard Edwards			Thomas Whitshed
1695		William Hoey			Edward Stratford
1698		Hugh Eccles
September 1703					Thomas Burroughs [note 2]
1703					Richard Thompson
1713					Robert Allen
1715					John Sale
1717		Edward Webster
1727		James Tynte [note 3]
1728		Richard Hull
1733					Hon. John Allen
1743					Stephen Trotter
1761		Sir William Osborne, 8th Bt [note 4]			William Mayne [note 5]
1769		Sir Robert Deane, 5th Bt
1771		Sir Robert Deane, 6th Bt
1777		Thomas Osborne [note 6]			Warden Flood
October 1783					Sir William Osborne, 8th Bt
1783					John Proby Osborne
1788					Alleyne FitzHerbert
1790					Charles Osborne
1798		Henry Osborne
1799		Robert Aldridge
1800		Mark Singleton
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Elected, but never took his seat
2. Declared not duly elected in 1703
3. Also elected for Youghal in 1727, for which he chose to sit
4. Also elected for Dungarvan in 1768, for which he chose to sit
5. Created a baronet in 1763
6. Succeeded as 9th Baronet in 1783

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 504
2. Guildford Slingsby at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 639.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.