Enniscorthy (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Enniscorthy was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Enniscorthy
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created1613 (1613)
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Enniscorthy was represented with two members.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
  • 1613–1615 Sir Edward Fisher and Richard Perkins [2]
  • 1634–1635 Sir Arthur Loftus and Thomas Newcomen [2]
  • 1639–1649 William Swanton and Ralph Waddington (unseated and replaced by Sir Thomas Esmond, 1st Baronet, (expelled 1642))[2][3]
  • 1661 Timothy Stampe and James Napper (Napper AWOL and replaced in 1662 by George Carleton) [2]

1689–1801
ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament James Devereux Dudley Colclough
1689 Arthur Waddington
1692 Richard Barry John Seymour
September 1703 Morley Saunders John Asgill [note 1]
1703 William Berry
1713 Richard Le Hunt
1715 William Berry
1740 Anderson Saunders
1747 Hon. Thomas George Southwell
1761 Beauchamp Bagenal John Grogan
1768 Cornelius Grogan
1769 Sir Edward Newenham Patriot
1776 Frederick Flood [note 2] Mountifort Longfield
October 1783 William Alexander English [note 3]
1783 Conway Heatley
1790 Vesey Colclough
1795 Robert Cornwall
January 1798 William Congreve Alcock [note 4]
1798 Thomas Whaley
February 1800 Peter Burrowes
June 1800 Thomas Dawson
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes
  1. Expelled in 1703
  2. Created a baronet in 1780
  3. Declared not duly elected in 1783
  4. Also elected for Waterford City in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References
  1. O'Hart (2007), p. 504
  2. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  3. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II (Exeter, 1902) page 255.

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.
  • 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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