Ennis (UK Parliament constituency)

Ennis
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	East Clare

Ennis is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Ennis in County Clare.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	United Kingdom general election, 1801	John Ormsby Vandeleur	Tory	1801: Co-opted
	United Kingdom general election, 1802	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	Ennis by-election, 1808	Rt Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald	Tory	^a
	United Kingdom general election, 1812	Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	Ennis by-election, 1813	Rt Hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald	Tory	^a
	United Kingdom general election, 1818	Spencer Perceval	Tory	Not the Prime Minister assassinated in 1812 but his son
	United Kingdom general election, 1820	Sir Ross Mahon, Bt	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	Ennis by-election, 1820	Richard Wellesley	Tory
	United Kingdom general election, 1826	Thomas Frankland Lewis	Tory	Resigned
	Ennis by-election, 1828	William Smith O'Brien	Tory	^b
	United Kingdom general election, 1831	Rt Hon. William Vesey-Fitzgerald	Tory	Succeeded as the 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey^a
	Ennis by-election, 1832	Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, Bt	Tory
	United Kingdom general election, 1832	Francis McNamara (British politician)Francis McNamara	Repeal Association
	United Kingdom general election, 1835	Hewitt Bridgeman	Liberal
	United Kingdom general election, 1847	The O'Gorman Mahon	Repeal Association
	United Kingdom general election, 1852	Rt Hon. John David Fitzgerald	Liberal	Became a member of the Independent Irish Party
	1852		Independent Irish	Appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland, as a Liberal
	Ennis by-election, 1855		Liberal	Appointed Judge of the Irish Queen's Bench
	Ennis by-election, 1860	William Stacpoole	Liberal	Sought re-election as a Home Rule League candidate
	United Kingdom general election, 1874		Home Rule League	Died
	Ennis by-election, 1879	James Lysaght Finigan	Home Rule League	United Kingdom general election, 1880: Supporter of Parnellite faction. Resigned.
	Ennis by-election, 1882	Matthew Joseph Kenny	Home Rule League	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ^a William Vesey Fitzgerald (MP for Ennis 1808–1812 and 1813–1818) appears to be the same person as William Vesey-Fitzgerald, the MP from 1831 to 1832. Walker includes all three terms as MP for Ennis in one index entry. The History of Parliament website confirms it was the same person and that he was also MP for Clare in 1818–1828, Newport, Cornwall in 1829 and Lostwithiel in 1830.^[1]
• ^b Stooks Smith classifies O'Brien as a Whig MP, but the Wikipedia biographical article suggests he was a Conservative MP (i.e. a Tory) in 1828–1831.

Elections

References

1. "VESEY FITZGERALD (formerly FITZGERALD), William (?1782–1843), of Inchicronan, co. Clare". History of Parliament. Retrieved 8 March 2013.

• 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)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)