Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency)

Tipperary
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary

Tipperary, also known as Tipperary County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Tipperary, except the Parliamentary boroughs of Cashel (1801-1870) and Clonmel (1801-1885). In 1885 the constituency was divided into East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		Francis Mathew, Viscount Mathew (later Earl of Llandaff)			John Bagwell
17 Nov 1806		Montague James Mathew	Whig		Francis Aldborough Prittie	Whig
17 Jul 1818					Richard Butler, Viscount Cahir
2 Mar 1819					William Bagwell	Tory
8 Apr 1819		Francis Aldborough Prittie	Whig
28 Jun 1826					John Hely Hutchinson (later Earl of Donoughmore)	Whig
21 Aug 1830					Thomas Wyse	Whig
12 May 1831		John Hely Hutchinson (later Earl of Donoughmore)	Whig
8 Aug 1832		Robert Otway-Cave
17 Dec 1832		Cornelius O'Callaghan	Liberal		Richard Lalor Sheil	Repealer
21 Jan 1835		Robert Otway Cave	Liberal
14 Jul 1841					Valentine Maher	Liberal
10 Feb 1844					Nicholas Maher	Repealer
21 Feb 1845		Richard Albert Fitzgerald	Repealer
11 Aug 1847		Francis Scully	Repealer
26 Jul 1852			Independent Liberal		James Sadleir[1]	Independent Liberal
16 Mar 1857					Daniel O'Donoghue	Independent Liberal
14 Apr 1857		Laurence Waldron	Liberal
24 Feb 1865					Charles Moore	Liberal
24 Jul 1865		John Blake Dillon	Liberal
17 Oct 1866		Charles William White	Liberal
27 Nov 1869					Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa[2]	Independent Nationalist
23 Feb 1870					Denis Caulfield Heron	Liberal
14 Feb 1874			Home Rule League		William Frederick Ormond O'Callaghan	Home Rule League
16 Feb 1875		John Mitchel[3]	Independent Nationalist
27 May 1875		Stephen Moore	Conservative
16 May 1877					Edmund Dwyer Gray	Home Rule League
8 Apr 1880		Patrick James Smyth	Home Rule League		John Dillon	Home Rule League
23 Mar 1883					Thomas Mayne	Home Rule League
12 Jan 1885		John O'Connor	Home Rule League
1885	Constituency divided: see East Tipperary, Mid Tipperary, North Tipperary and South Tipperary

Elections

General Election 9 August 1830: Tipperary

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Whig	Francis Aldborough Prittie	757		N/A
	Whig	Thomas Wyse	577		N/A
	Tory	John Hely Hutchison	537		N/A
	Tory	Roe			N/A
Turnout					N/A

• 1869 In the by-election of that year, O'Donovan Rossa was returned to the Commons for the Tipperary. He defeated the Liberal Catholic Denis Caulfield Heron by 1054 to 898 votes.^[4] The election was declared invalid because he was an imprisoned felon.

References

1. expelled 16 Feb 1857
2. as a convicted felon, he was declared ineligible to sit 10 Feb 1870
3. he was adjudged to be a convicted felon and thus ineligible to be elected 18 Feb 1875. At the subsequent by-election held on 13 Mar 1875, he was again returned. He died a week later and the seat was assigned to Stephen Moore (the defeated candidate at the 13 Mar by-election) on 27 May 1875
4. A. M. Sullivan, New Ireland, London, n.d. [c. 1877], pp. 329–330. Ricorso profile of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa claims the result was 1131 to 1028.

Sources

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
• 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)