Members of the 3rd UK Parliament from Ireland
This is a list of the MPs for Irish constituencies, who were elected at the 1806 United Kingdom general election, to serve as Members of the 3rd UK Parliament from Ireland, or who were elected at subsequent by-elections. There were 100 seats representing Ireland in this Parliament.
2nd Parliament | (1802) |
3rd Parliament | (1806) |
4th Parliament | (1807) |
This was the second United Kingdom general election, as the House of Commons of the 1st Parliament was chosen from the members of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland and not by a popular election.
The 3rd United Kingdom Parliament was elected between 29 October 1806 and 17 December 1806, as at this period the exact date for the election in each constituency was fixed by the Returning Officer. The Parliament first assembled on 13 December 1806, for a maximum duration of seven years from that date. It was dissolved on 29 April 1807 (a length of four month and sixteen days - the shortest UK Parliament ever).
Summary of results by party (Ireland only)
The names of and votes for candidates at elections are based on Walker. Party labels are based on those used by Stooks Smith and may differ from those in other sources. Many early nineteenth century Irish MPs are not classified by party, by Stooks Smith.
In some cases, when a party label is used for the MP by Stooks Smith in a subsequent Parliament, this is noted in the Members list below.
At the dissolution of the 2nd Parliament, the MPs by party (calculated as above), were
- Tory 43, Whig 31, Other (unclassified) 26: Total 100.
The summary results of the 1806 general election, in Ireland, were as follows.
Party | Candidates | Unopposed | Votes | % | Seats election | Seats dissolution | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory a | 55 | 35 | 19,064 | 56.00 | 50 | 50 b | |
Whig a | 43 | 32 | 10,265 | 30.15 | 36 | 36 b | |
Other | 17 | 12 | 4,714 | 13.85 | 14 | 14 | |
Total | 115 | 79 | 34,043 | 100.00 | 100 | 100 | |
Notes:-
- a One Whig and three Tory candidates each contested and won two constituencies. The Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry (Whig) was elected for Kerry and Tralee. He chose to represent Kerry. Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt (Tory) was returned by the boroughs of Coleraine and Londonderry. He decided to represent the latter seat. The Hon. George Knox (Tory) won Dublin University and Dungannon. He decided to sit for the University. Nathaniel Sneyd (Tory) was elected by Cavan and Enniskillen. He retained the Cavan seat. Each candidacy is counted separately in the table.
- b It is possible that there was a petition following the election at Downpatrick, which resulted in Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker (Tory) being declared duly elected. Walker does not refer to this petition, but Stooks Smith mentions one. If this change did take place then there should be one more Tory member and one less Whig at the dissolution.
General election results by constituency
Constituency | Votes Tory | Votes Whig | Votes other | Result | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
County Antrim 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
Armagh | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
County Armagh 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
Athlone | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from O | |
Bandon | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from W | |
Belfast | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Carlow | - | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold | |
County Carlow 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
Carrickfergus | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Cashel | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold | |
County Cavan 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from W | ||
County Clare 2 members |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | ||
Clonmel | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Coleraine | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | |
Cork 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
County Cork 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from O 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from O | ||
County Donegal 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | ||
County Down 2 members |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | ||
Downpatrick | 105 | - | 119 | - | - | W gain from O | |
Drogheda | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from O | |
Dublin 2 members |
1,638 | - | 1,522 | - | - | T hold 1 | |
- | - | 1,675 | - | - | W hold | ||
County Dublin 2 members |
545 | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
455 | - | 357 | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
Dublin University | 35 | 32 | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Dundalk | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | |
Dungannon | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Dungarvan | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold | |
Ennis | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Enniskillen | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | |
County Fermanagh 2 members |
1,260 | 413 | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
1,416 | 623 | - | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
Galway | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
County Galway 2 members |
2,012 | - | - | 1,770 | - | T gain from O 1 | |
3,305 | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
County Kerry 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from T | ||
County Kildare 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
Kilkenny | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
County Kilkenny 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold | ||
King's County 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
Kinsale | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
County Leitrim 2 members |
759 | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
607 | - | 365 | - | - | T gain from W | ||
Limerick | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
County Limerick 2 members |
- | - | - | 851 | - | O hold 1 | |
- | - | - | 628 | 225 | O hold | ||
Lisburn | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Londonderry | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
County Londonderry 2 members |
1,397 | - | 978 | - | - | T hold 1 | |
1,123 | - | 608 | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
County Longford 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from O | ||
County Louth 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from O 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from O | ||
Mallow | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
County Mayo 2 members |
3,768 | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
- | - | 3,768 | 1,240 | - | W hold 1 | ||
County Meath 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
County Monaghan 2 members |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | ||
New Ross | - | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold | |
Newry | 142 | - | 121 | - | - | T gain from W | |
Portarlington | - | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold | |
Queen's County 2 members |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T gain from O 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
County Roscommon 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold | ||
Sligo | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold 1 | |
County Sligo 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | ||
County Tipperary 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from O | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from O | ||
Tralee | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from T | |
County Tyrone 2 members |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold | ||
Waterford | - | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
County Waterford 2 members |
454 | - | 285 | - | - | T hold 1 | |
5 | - | 427 | - | - | W hold | ||
County Westmeath 2 members |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | |
- | - | - | Unopp. | - | O hold 1 | ||
Wexford | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | |
County Wexford 2 members |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W gain from T | ||
County Wicklow 2 members |
- | - | Unopp | - | - | W hold 1 | |
- | - | Unopp. | - | - | W hold 1 | ||
Youghal | Unopp. | - | - | - | - | T hold | |
Constituency | Votes Tory | Votes Whig | Votes other | Result | |||
Note:-
- 1 Incumbent re-elected
Members by constituency
The list is given in alphabetical order by constituency. The County prefixes used for county constituencies is disregarded in determining alphabetical order, but the county follows any borough or city constituency with the same name.
The name of an MP who served during the Parliament, but who was not the holder of a seat at the dissolution in 1807, is given in italics. When the date of the election is in italics, this indicates a by-election.
A member of the 2nd Parliament, for the same constituency, is indicated by an * before the MPs name. A member of the 2nd Parliament, for a different constituency in Ireland, is indicated by a + before the MPs name.
Election | Constituency | Member | Party | Notes | |
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1806, 24 November | County Antrim 2 members |
*Edmond Alexander MacNaghten | Tory | ||
*Hon. John O'Neill | Tory | ||||
1806, 11 November | Armagh | *Patrick Duigenan | Tory | ||
1806, 17 November | County Armagh 2 members |
*Viscount Acheson | Tory | Became the 2nd Earl of Gosford | |
*Hon. Henry Caulfeild | Whig | ||||
1807, March 13 | William Brownlow | Tory | |||
1806, 13 November | Athlone | George Tierney | Whig | ||
1806, 15 November | Bandon | Hon. Courtenay Boyle | Tory | ||
1806, 17 November | Belfast | *James Edward May | Tory | ||
1806, 13 November | Carlow | Hon. Frederick John Robinson | |||
1806, 13 November | County Carlow 2 members |
*David Latouche | Whig | ||
*Walter Bagenal | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | Carrickfergus | *Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester | Tory | Resigned | |
1807, March 31 | James Craig | Whig | |||
1806, 17 November | Cashel | Viscount Primrose | Whig | ||
1806, 17 November | County Cavan 2 members |
*Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | Also returned for Enniskillen | |
John Maxwell-Barry | Tory | ||||
1806, 13 November | County Clare 2 members |
*Hon. Francis Nathaniel Burton | |||
*Sir Edward O'Brien, Bt | |||||
1806, 20 November | Clonmel | *Rt Hon. William Bagwell | Tory | ||
1806, 13 November | Coleraine | +Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt | Tory | Elects to sit for Londonderry | |
1807, February 4 | *Walter Jones | Tory | |||
1806, 14 November | Cork 2 members |
*Mountifort Longfield | Tory | ||
*Hon. Christopher Hely-Hutchinson | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | County Cork 2 members |
*Viscount Boyle | Whig | ||
+Hon. George Ponsonby | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | County Donegal 2 members |
*Sir James Stewart, Bt | Tory | ||
Henry Vaughan Brooke | Tory | ||||
1806, 17 November | County Down 2 members |
*Francis Savage | |||
*Hon. John Meade | |||||
1806, 18 November | Downpatrick | Edward Southwell Ruthven | Whig | Possibly unseated on petition and John Wilson Croker (Tory) declared duly elected | |
1806, 14 November | Drogheda | Henry Meade Ogle | Tory | ||
1806, 19 November | Dublin 2 members |
*Robert Shaw | Tory | ||
Rt Hon. Henry Grattan | Whig | ||||
1806, 27 November | County Dublin 2 members |
*Hans Hamilton | Tory | ||
*Frederick John Falkiner | Tory | ||||
1806, 6 November | Dublin University | *Hon. George Knox | Tory | Also returned for Dungannon | |
1806, 22 November | Dundalk | John Metge | Tory | Resigned | |
1807, January 20 | Josias Dupré Porcher | Tory | |||
1806, 11 November | Dungannon | *Hon. George Knox | Tory | Elects to sit for Dublin University | |
1807, January 31 | Viscount Hamilton | Tory | |||
1806, 14 November | Dungarvan | Hon. George Walpole | Whig | ||
1806, 6 November | Ennis | Rt Hon. James Fitzgerald | Tory | ||
1806, 20 November | Enniskillen | Nathaniel Sneyd | Tory | Elects to sit for Cavan | |
1807, January 14 | Richard Henry Alexander Bennet | Tory | |||
1806, 17 November | County Fermanagh 2 members |
*Mervyn Archdall (junior) | Tory | ||
*Hon. Galbraith Lowry Cole | Tory | ||||
1806, 10 November | Galway | *James Daly | Tory | ||
1806, 17 December | County Galway 2 members |
*Richard Martin | Tory | ||
*Denis Bowes Daly | Tory | ||||
1806, 17 November | County Kerry 2 members |
*Rt Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald (The 18th Knight of Kerry) |
Whig | Also returned for Tralee | |
Henry Arthur Herbert | Whig | ||||
1806, 21 November | County Kildare 2 members |
*Lord Robert Stephen Fitzgerald | Whig | ||
*Robert La Touche | Whig | ||||
1806, 2 December | Kilkenny | *Hon. Charles Harward Butler | Whig | ||
1806, 21 November | County Kilkenny 2 members |
*Hon. James Wandesford Butler | Whig | ||
Hon. Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | King's County 2 members |
*Sir Lawrence Parsons, Bt | Tory | ||
*Thomas Bernard (senior) | Tory | ||||
1806, 11 November | Kinsale | *Henry Martin | Whig | ||
1806, 21 November | County Leitrim 2 members |
*Henry John Clements | Tory | ||
William Gore | Tory | ||||
1806, 10 November | Limerick | *Charles Vereker | Tory | ||
1806, 22 November | County Limerick 2 members |
*William Odell | Classified Tory in the 4th Parliament | ||
Hon. William Henry Quin | |||||
1806, 20 November | Lisburn | *Earl of Yarmouth | Tory | ||
1806, 8 December | Londonderry | *Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt | Tory | ||
1806, 4 December | County Londonderry 2 members |
*Hon. Charles William Stewart | Tory | ||
*Lord George Thomas Beresford | Tory | ||||
1806, 25 November | County Longford 2 members |
*Sir Thomas Fetherston, Bt | Tory | ||
Viscount Forbes | Tory | ||||
1806, 18 November | County Louth 2 members |
*Rt Hon. John Foster | Tory | ||
Viscount Jocelyn | Tory | ||||
1806, 12 November | Mallow | *Denham Jephson | Whig | ||
1806, 17 November | County Mayo 2 members |
*Rt Hon. Denis Browne | Tory | a | |
*Hon. Henry Augustus Dillon | Whig | a | |||
1806, 18 November | County Meath 2 members |
*Sir Marcus Somerville, Bt | Whig | ||
*Thomas Bligh | Whig | ||||
1806, 19 November | County Monaghan 2 members |
*Richard Dawson | |||
*Charles Powell Leslie II | Tory | ||||
1806, 10 November | New Ross | Charles Leigh | |||
1806, 15 November | Newry | Hon. Francis Needham | Tory | ||
1806, 22 November | Portarlington | Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt | |||
1806, 12 November | Queen's County 2 members |
*Henry Brooke Parnell | Whig | ||
*Hon. William Wellesley-Pole | Tory | Appointed Clerk of the Ordnance | |||
1807, April 13 | |||||
1806, 17 November | County Roscommon 2 members |
*Arthur French | Whig | ||
Hon. Stephen Mahon | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | Sligo | *George Canning | Tory | Cousin of the future Prime Minister | |
1806, 17 November | County Sligo 2 members |
*Charles O'Hara | Whig | ||
Edward Synge Cooper | Tory | ||||
1806, 17 November | County Tipperary 2 members |
Hon. Montagu James Mathew | Whig | b | |
Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie | Whig | ||||
1806, 17 November | Tralee | +Rt Hon. Maurice FitzGerald (The 18th Knight of Kerry) |
Whig | Elects to sit for Kerry | |
1807, January 17 | Samuel Boddington | Tory | |||
1806, 18 November | County Tyrone 2 members |
*James Stewart | |||
Hon. Thomas Knox | |||||
1806, 17 November | Waterford | *Sir John Newport, Bt | Whig | ||
1806, 18 November | County Waterford 2 members |
*John Claudius Beresford | Tory | ||
Richard Power | Whig | ||||
1806, 15 November | County Westmeath 2 members |
*William Smyth | |||
*Gustavus Hume-Rochfort | Classified Tory in the 5th Parliament | ||||
1806, 10 November | Wexford | Sir Robert Wigram, Bt | Tory | ||
1806, 17 November | County Wexford 2 members |
John Colclough | Whig | ||
Robert Shapland Carew | Whig | ||||
1806, 15 November | County Wicklow 2 members |
*William Hoare Hume | Whig | ||
*William Tighe | Whig | ||||
1806, 10 November | Youghal | Viscount Bernard | Tory | ||
Supplementary notes:-
- a Stooks Smith does not classify this MP by party, in this Parliament, but does in the previous and next Parliaments. It is assumed the party allegiance was the same in this Parliament.
- b Stooks Smith wrongly lists Hon. Montagu James Mathew as a member of the previous Parliament, following a by-election in 1806 caused by Viscount Mathew having succeeded as the 2nd Earl Landaff.
References
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second 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 Peerage Pages
See also
- Duration of English, British and United Kingdom Parliaments from 1660
- List of Parliaments of the United Kingdom
- 1806 United Kingdom general election