Members of the 2nd UK Parliament from Ireland
This is a list of the MPs for Irish constituencies, who were elected at the 1802 United Kingdom general election, to serve as Members of the 2nd UK Parliament from Ireland, or who were elected at subsequent by-elections. There were 100 seats representing Ireland in this Parliament.
| 1st Parliament | (1801) |
| 2nd Parliament | (1802) |
| 3rd Parliament | (1806) |
This was the first United Kingdom general election, as the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament of the United was chosen from the members of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland and not by a popular election.
The 2nd United Kingdom Parliament was elected between 5 July 1802 and 28 August 1802, as at this period the exact date for the election in each constituency was fixed by the Returning Officer. The Parliament first assembled on 31 August 1802, for a maximum duration of seven years from that date. It was dissolved on 24 October 1806 (a length of four years, one month and twenty four days).
Summary of results by party (Ireland only)
The names of and votes for candidates at elections are based on Walker. Party labels are based on those used by Stooks Smith and may differ from those in other sources. Many early nineteenth century Irish MPs are not classified by party, by Stooks Smith.
In some cases, when a party label is used for the MP by Stooks Smith in a subsequent Parliament, this is noted in the Members list below.
At the dissolution of the 1st Parliament, the MPs by party (calculated as above), were
- Other (unclassified) 50, Tory 34, Whig 16: Total 100.
| Party | Candidates | Unopposed | Votes | % | Seats election | Seats dissolution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tory | 45 | 37 | 5,703 | 37.03 | 43 | 43 | |
| Whig | 33 | 21 | 6,274 | 40.73 | 28 | 31 | |
| Other | 35 | 25 | 3,425 | 22.24 | 29 | 26 | |
| Total | 113 | 83 | 15,402 | 100.0 | 100 | 100 | |
Note: Two Tory candidate contested and won two constituencies. Each candidacy is counted separately in the table.
General election results by constituency
| Constituency | Votes Tory | Votes Whig | Votes other | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County Antrim 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | ||
| Armagh | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| County Armagh 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | ||
| Athlone | – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| Bandon | – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| Belfast | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Carlow | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| County Carlow 2 members |
– | 524 | 437 | – | W gain from O | |
| – | 479 | 426 | – | W gain from O | ||
| Carrickfergus | 381 | 270 | – | – | T gain from O | |
| Cashel | – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | |
| County Cavan 2 members |
– | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | ||
| County Clare 2 members |
– | – | 880 | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | 535 | 499 | O hold | ||
| Clonmel | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Coleraine | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Cork 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | ||
| County Cork 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| County Donegal 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | ||
| County Down 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Downpatrick | – | – | 96 | 87 | O hold | |
| Drogheda | – | – | 213 | 208 | O hold 1 | |
| Dublin 2 members |
1,965 | 642 | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| 1,281 | 1,673 | – | – | W gain from T | ||
| County Dublin 2 members |
708 | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| 469 | 263 | – | – | T hold 1 | ||
| Dublin University | 39 | 29 | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Dundalk | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | |
| Dungannon | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | |
| Dungarvan | – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold | |
| Ennis | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | |
| Enniskillen | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | |
| County Fermanagh 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | ||
| Galway | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from W | |
| County Galway 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| County Kerry 2 members |
– | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | ||
| County Kildare 2 members |
– | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold | ||
| Kilkenny | – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | |
| County Kilkenny 2 members |
– | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | ||
| King's County 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Kinsale | – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | |
| County Leitrim 2 members |
– | 779 | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| 389 | 668 | – | – | W gain from T | ||
| Limerick | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | |
| County Limerick 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | ||
| Lisburn | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | |
| Londonderry | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | |
| County Londonderry 2 members |
Unopp | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | ||
| County Longford 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | ||
| County Louth 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Mallow | – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | |
| County Mayo 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | ||
| County Meath 2 members |
– | 326 | – | – | W gain from O 1 | |
| – | 181 | 44 | – | W gain from O | ||
| County Monaghan 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | ||
| New Ross | – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | |
| Newry | – | Unopp. | – | – | W gain from O | |
| Portarlington | – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | |
| Queen's County 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold | ||
| County Roscommon 2 members |
– | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold | ||
| Sligo | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| County Sligo 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | ||
| County Tipperary 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Tralee | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | |
| County Tyrone 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Waterford | 471 | 440 | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| County Waterford 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold | ||
| County Westmeath 2 members |
– | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | |
| – | – | Unopp. | – | O hold 1 | ||
| Wexford | Unopp. | – | – | – | T gain from O | |
| County Wexford 2 members |
Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold | ||
| County Wicklow 2 members |
– | Unopp | – | – | W hold 1 | |
| – | Unopp. | – | – | W hold 1 | ||
| Youghal | Unopp. | – | – | – | T hold 1 | |
| Constituency | Votes Tory | Votes Whig | Votes other | Result | ||
Note:-
- 1 Incumbent re-elected
Members by constituency
The list is given in alphabetical order by constituency. The County prefixes used for county constituencies is disregarded in determining alphabetical order, but the county follows any borough or city constituency with the same name.
The name of an MP who served during the Parliament, but who was not the holder of a seat at the dissolution in 1806, is given in italics. When the date of the election is in italics, this indicates a by-election.
A member of the 1st Parliament, for the same constituency, is indicated by an * before the MPs name. A member of the 1st Parliament, for a different constituency in Ireland, is indicated by a + before the MPs name.
| Election | Constituency | Member | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1802, 19 July | County Antrim 2 members |
*Edmond Alexander MacNaghten | Tory | ||
| Hon. John O'Neill | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 9 July | Armagh | *Patrick Duigenan | Tory | ||
| 1802, 17 July | County Armagh 2 members |
*Hon. Archibald Acheson (Viscount Acheson) |
Tory | Styled Viscount Acheson from February 1806 | |
| Hon. Henry Caulfeild | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 26 July | Athlone | *William Handcock | Resigned | ||
| 1803, August 22 | Thomas Tyrwitt Jones | ||||
| 1802, 13 July | Bandon | *Sir Broderick Chinnery, Bt | Whig | ||
| 1802, 12 July | Belfast | *James Edward May | Tory | ||
| 1802, 24 July | Carlow | *Charles Montague Ormsby | Tory | Appointed Recorder of Prince of Wales Island (Penang) | |
| 1806, June 9 | Michael Symes | ||||
| 1802, 26 July | County Carlow 2 members |
David Latouche | Whig | ||
| Walter Bagenal | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 30 July | Carrickfergus | Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester | Tory | ||
| 1802, 27 July | Cashel | Rt Hon. William Wickham | Whig | Appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury | |
| 1806, February 27 | |||||
| 1802, 16 July | County Cavan 2 members |
*Francis Saunderson | Whig | Possibly Tory (see constituency article) | |
| *Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 24 July | County Clare 2 members |
*Hon. Francis Nathaniel Burton | |||
| Sir Edward O'Brien, Bt | |||||
| 1802, 19 July | Clonmel | *Rt Hon. William Bagwell | Tory | ||
| 1802, 26 July | Coleraine | *Walter Jones | Tory | ||
| 1802, 16 July | Cork 2 members |
*Mountifort Longfield | Tory | ||
| *Hon. Christopher Hely-Hutchinson | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 15 July | County Cork 2 members |
*Viscount Boyle | Classified Whig in the 3rd Parliament | ||
| *Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald | |||||
| 1802, 28 July | County Donegal 2 members |
*Viscount Sudley | Tory | ||
| Sir James Stewart, Bt | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 24 July | County Down 2 members |
*Viscount Castlereagh | Tory | Appointed Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | |
| *Francis Savage | |||||
| 1805, July 27 | Hon. John Meade | ||||
| 1802, 17 July | Downpatrick | Charles Stewart Hawthorne | |||
| 1802, 27 July | Drogheda | *Edward Hardman | |||
| 1802, 21 July | Dublin 2 members |
*John Claudius Beresford | Tory | Resigned | |
| John La Touche | Whig | ||||
| 1804, March 31 | Robert Shaw | Tory | |||
| 1802, 14 July | County Dublin 2 members |
*Hans Hamilton | Tory | ||
| *Frederick John Falkiner | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 14 July | Dublin University | *Hon. George Knox | Tory | Also returned for Dungannon. Appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in Ireland | |
| 1805, March 28 | |||||
| 1802, 15 July | Dundalk | Richard Archdall | Tory | ||
| 1802, 12 July | Dungannon | +Hon. George Knox | Tory | Elects to sit for Dublin University | |
| 1803, June 9 | *Sir Charles Hamilton, Bt | Tory | |||
| 1802, 17 July | Dungarvan | William Greene | Whig | ||
| 1802, 22 July | Ennis | Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald | Tory | ||
| 1802, 31 July | Enniskillen | +Rt Hon. John Beresford | Tory | Elects to sit for County Waterford | |
| 1802, December 24 | William Burroughs | Tory | Appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in Bengal | ||
| 1806, March 14 | John King | Tory | Resigned | ||
| 1806, July 3 | William Henry Fremantle | Tory | |||
| 1802, 19 July | County Fermanagh 2 members |
*Viscount Cole | Tory | Cole becomes the 2nd Earl of Enniskillen | |
| Mervyn Archdall (junior) | Tory | ||||
| 1803, June 27 | Hon. Galbraith Lowry Cole | Tory | |||
| 1802, 15 July | Galway | +Denis Bowes Daly | Tory | Resigned to contest County Galway | |
| 1805, June 29 | James Daly | Tory | |||
| 1802, 22 July | County Galway 2 members |
*Richard Martin | |||
| *Hon. Richard Le Poer Trench (Viscount Dunlo) |
Styled Viscount Dunlo from January 1803 Appointed Commissioner for the Affairs of India | ||||
| 1804, June 4 | Dunlo became the 2nd Earl of Clancarty | ||||
| 1805, June 8 | +Denis Bowes Daly | Tory | Appointed Joint Mustermaster General in Ireland | ||
| 1806, May 10 | |||||
| 1802, 26 July | County Kerry 2 members |
*Rt Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald (The 18th Knight of Kerry) |
Whig | ||
| *James Crosbie | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 20 July | County Kildare 2 members |
Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald | Whig | ||
| Robert La Touche | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 22 July | Kilkenny | Hon. Charles Harward Butler | Whig | ||
| 1802, 19 July | County Kilkenny 2 members |
*Hon. James Wandesford Butler | Whig | ||
| *Rt Hon. William Ponsonby | Whig | Created the 1st Baron Ponsonby | |||
| 1806, April 12 | Hon. George Ponsonby | Whig | |||
| 1802, 22 July | King's County 2 members |
Thomas Bernard (senior) | Tory | ||
| *Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt | Appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in Ireland | ||||
| 1805, April 6 | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 13 July | Kinsale | +Samuel Campbell Rowley | Resigned | ||
| 1806, April 29 | Henry Martin | Whig | |||
| 1802, 24 July | County Leitrim 2 members |
*Viscount Clements | Whig | Became the 2nd Earl of Leitrim | |
| Peter La Touche | Whig | ||||
| 1805, February 5 | Henry John Clements | Tory | |||
| 1802, 16 July | Limerick | Charles Vereker | Tory | ||
| 1802, 22 July | County Limerick 2 members |
*William Odell | Classified Tory in the 4th Parliament | ||
| Charles Silver Oliver | |||||
| 1802, 12 July | Lisburn | Earl of Yarmouth | Tory | ||
| 1802, 21 July | Londonderry | +Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt | Tory | ||
| 1802, 21 July | County Londonderry 2 members |
*Hon. Charles William Stewart | Tory | ||
| Lord George Thomas Beresford | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 16 July | County Longford 2 members |
*Sir Thomas Fetherston, Bt | Classified Tory in the 3rd Parliament | ||
| Hon. Thomas Glendowe Newcomen | |||||
| 1802, 22 July | County Louth 2 members |
*William Charles Fortescue | |||
| *Rt Hon. John Foster | Appointed Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer in Ireland | ||||
| 1804, August 6 | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 13 July | Mallow | Denham Jephson | Whig | ||
| 1802, 22 July | County Mayo 2 members |
*Rt Hon. Denis Browne | Tory | ||
| Hon. Henry Augustus Dillon | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 23 July | County Meath 2 members |
*Sir Marcus Somerville, Bt | Whig | ||
| Thomas Bligh | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 23 July | County Monaghan 2 members |
*Richard Dawson | |||
| *Charles Powell Leslie II | Tory | ||||
| 1802, 10 July | New Ross | Charles Tottenham | Resigned | ||
| 1805, July 26 | Ponsonby Tottenham | ||||
| 1802, 13 July | Newry | +Rt Hon. Isaac Corry | Whig | ||
| 1802, 17 July | Portarlington | +Henry Brooke Parnell | Resigned | ||
| 1802, December 30 | Thomas Tyrwhitt | Resigned | |||
| 1806, March 15 | John Langston | ||||
| 1802, 23 July | Queen's County 2 members |
*Hon. William Wellesley-Pole | |||
| Sir Eyre Coote | Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica | ||||
| 1806, February 17 | *Henry Brooke Parnell | Appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in Ireland | |||
| 1806, April 18 | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 22 July | County Roscommon 2 members |
*Arthur French | Whig | ||
| Hon. Edward King | Whig | ||||
| 1802, 24 July | Sligo | *Owen Wynne | Tory | Resigned | |
| 1806, July 16 | George Canning | Tory | Cousin of the MP for Tralee | ||
| 1802, 23 July | County Sligo 2 members |
*Joshua Edward Cooper | Tory | ||
| *Charles O'Hara | Whig | Appointed a Commissioner of the Treasury in Ireland | |||
| 1806, April 17 | |||||
| 1802, 19 July | County Tipperary 2 members |
*Viscount Mathew | a | ||
| *John Bagwell (c. 1752-1816) | |||||
| 1802, 24 July | Tralee | Rt Hon. George Canning | Tory | Appointed Treasurer of the Navy | |
| 1804, June 4 | Cousin of the MP for Sligo | ||||
| 1802, 19 July | County Tyrone 2 members |
*James Stewart | |||
| *Rt Hon. John Stewart | |||||
| 1802, 24 July | Waterford | *William Congreve Alcock | Tory | Unseated on petition | |
| 1803, December 7 | Sir John Newport, Bt | Whig | Declared duly elected on petition. Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland | ||
| 1806, March 14 | |||||
| 1802, 21 July | County Waterford 2 members |
*Rt Hon. John Beresford | Tory | Also returned for Enniskillen. Died. | |
| +Edward Lee | Whig | ||||
| 1806, January 6 | +John Claudius Beresford | Tory | |||
| 1802, 16 July | County Westmeath 2 members |
*William Smyth | |||
| *Gustavus Hume-Rochfort | Classified Tory in the 5th Parliament | ||||
| 1802, 9 July | Wexford | Richard Nevill | Tory | ||
| 1802, 19 July | County Wexford 2 members |
*Viscount Loftus | Tory | Became the 2nd Marquess of Ely | |
| *Abel Ram | Tory | ||||
| 1806, May 27 | Caesar Colclough | Whig | |||
| 1802, 22 July | County Wicklow 2 members |
*William Hoare Hume | Whig | ||
| *George Ponsonby | Whig | Appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland | |||
| 1806, May 10 | William Tighe | Whig | |||
| 1802, 13 July | Youghal | *Sir John Keane, Bt | Tory | ||
Supplemental note:-
- a Stooks Smith (vol III p 240) states that there was a by-election in 1806, with Hon. Montagu James Mathew (Whig) elected in place of Viscount Mathew who had succeeded as the 2nd Earl Landaff in July. However Stooks Smith is in error: the Return of Members of Parliament (Part II p 229) shows that no further election was held in the constituency. The History of Parliament 1790–1820 vol II p 685 explains that preparations for a county byelection were made in which the new Earl of Llandaff hoped to be succeeded by his brother Montague but was restricted by a Government pledge to support Hon Francis Prittie. When the byelection was overtaken by a dissolution, the Mathew family managed to get both elected by deposing John Bagwell.
References
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), second 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)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
See also
- Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660
- List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
- 1802 United Kingdom general election
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