Charleville (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Charleville | |
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Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1673 |
Abolished | 1800 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Charleville was a constituency in County Cork represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.
History
The town it represented was named after Charles II. It was enfranchised in 1673, with a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It belonged to the Earl of Orrery, a branch of the Boyle family. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Charleville was represented with two members.[1] At the end of the 18th Century the constituency was controlled by the Earl of Shannon and the Earl of Cork who each nominated one member. The compensation of £15,000 for the loss of the seats in the Act of Union 1800 was divided equally between them.
Members of Parliament, 1673–1801
1689–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | John Baggot | John Power | ||||
1692 | Henry Boreman | George Crofts [note 1] | ||||
1695 | Hon. Charles Boyle | John Ormsby | ||||
1703 | George Evans | Robert FitzGerald | ||||
1713 | Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Bt | Brettridge Badham | ||||
1715 | George Evans | William Boyle | ||||
1721 | Henry Purdon | |||||
1725 | James O'Brien | |||||
1727 | John Lysaght | Price Hartstonge | ||||
1744 | Edward Barry | |||||
1759 | Viscount Dungarvon | |||||
1761 | Robert Barry | Richard Longfield | ||||
1768 | James Lysaght | |||||
1776 | Richard Cox | Thomas Warren | ||||
October 1783 | Rogerson Cotter | John Bennett [note 2] | ||||
1783 | Richard St George | |||||
1790 | Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Bt | |||||
1798 | Charles Boyle | |||||
1800 | George Nugent | |||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
Notes
- ↑ Expelled in October 1692
- ↑ Also elected for Castlemartyr in 1783, for which he chose to sit
References
- ↑ O'Hart (2007), p. 501
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.
- Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4,
- Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8,
- T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
- 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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