Fethard (County Wexford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

Fethard
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created1613 (1613)
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

History

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

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

  • 1613–1615 Nicholas Loftus of Fethard and Richard Pemberton [2]
  • 1634–1635 Nicholas Loftus of Kildogan and Richard Parsons [2]
  • 1639–1649 Hugh Rochford (expelled) and Nicholas Stafford of Balmakatheryn (expelled)
  • 1661–1666 Nicholas Loftus and Sir Nicholas Loftus[3]

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond 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]
1761 Hon. Nicholas Hume-Loftus
1764 William Alcock
1767 John Tottenham
1768 Arthur Loftus
1776 Charles Tottenham [note 2] Robert Hellen
1779 Ponsonby Tottenham
1783 Ephraim Carroll
1790 Charles Tottenham Thomas Loftus
January 1793 Henry Hatton
1793 Luke Fox
1796 William Loftus
1798 Henry Alcock Charles Eustace
1799 George Harrison Reade
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

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

References

  1. O'Hart (2007), p. 504
  2. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 637.

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.

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