Tralee (UK Parliament constituency)

Tralee
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	one
Replaced by	West Kerry

Tralee was a constituency in Ireland of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. The borough constituency continued to be represented until it was disfranchised in 1885.

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Tralee in County Kerry.

Members of Parliament

The list below includes a line for every UK Parliament election held in the constituency, even if the incumbent MP was re-elected.

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801-01-01	Arthur Moore		1801: Co-opted ^a
	1802-07-24	Rt Hon. George Canning	Tory	Appointed Treasurer of the Navy
	1804-06-04			Later Prime Minister 1827
	1806-11-17	Rt Hon. Maurice FitzGerald (The 18th Knight of Kerry)	Whig	Also returned by and elected to sit for County Kerry
	1807-01-17	Samuel Boddington	Tory
	1807-05-21	Sir Arthur Wellesley	Tory	Also returned by and elected to sit for Newport (Isle of Wight). Later Prime Minister (as the 1st Duke of Wellington) 1828–30 and 1834.
	1807-07-27	Evan Foulkes	Tory	Resigned
	1808-02-25	James Stephen	Tory
	1812-10-27	Henry Arthur Herbert	Whig	Resigned
	1813-06-17	James Evan Baillie	Whig
	1818-06-29	Edward Denny	Tory	Later 4th Baronet. Resigned.
	1819-05-29	James Cuffe	Tory	Died 29 July 1828
	1820-03-20
	1826
	1828-09-12	Sir Edward Denny, Bt	Tory	3rd Baronet. Resigned.
	1829-06-09	Robert Vernon Smith	Whig
	1830-08-13			Appointed Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
	1830-12-04
	1831-05-07	Walker Ferrand	Tory
	1832-12-14	Maurice O'Connell	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a Liberal/Repealer pact candidate
	1835-01-10		Liberal
	1837-08-07	John Bateman	Conservative	Unseated on petition
	1838-03-12	Maurice O'Connell	Liberal	Liberal/Repealer pact candidate. Declared elected.
	1841-07-05		Repeal Association
	1847-08-04			Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1852-07-15		Liberal	Died 18 June 1853
	1853-07-04	Daniel O'Connell, Jnr	Liberal	Resigned
	1857-04-01
	1859-05-02
	1863-05-15	Rt Hon. Thomas O'Hagan	Liberal	Appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland
	1865-02-14	Daniel O'Donoghue (The O'Donoghue)	Liberal
	1865-07-13
	1868-11-17
	1874-02-04			Re-elected as a Home Rule League candidate
	1880-04-01		Home Rule League	Last MP for the constituency
1885-11-18		Constituency abolished

Note:

• ^a Member of the former Parliament of Ireland chosen by lot to sit in the UK House of Commons from 1801.

Elections

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies/Historic constituency names

References

• 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 "T" (part 2)