Augher (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Augher was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until the Acts of Union 1800 came into force on 1 January 1801.

Augher
Former Corporation constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1614
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Augher was not represented.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		Ralph Birchenshaw			Edward Skorye
1634		Robert Meredith			Sir James Erskine
1639		Robert Byron			William Peasley, died and replaced in 1641 by Robert Martin
1661		Henry Mervyn			Richard Palfrey
1689		Augher was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692		James Moutray			Archibald Richardson
1695		Sir Thomas Pakenham			David Creighton
1703		James Moutray			John Hamilton
1713		William Balfour			Henry Mervyn
1727					Richard Tighe
1737					William Richardson
1739		Richard Gorges
1755					St George Richardson
1761		William Montgomery			James Moutray
1768		Robert Rochfort
1776		George Hamilton			Sir William Fortick
October 1783		William Richardson [note 1]			Henry Vaughan Brooke [note 2]
1783					Samuel Hayes [note 3]
1790		Thomas Coghlan			Edmond Stanley
1794		John Stewart [note 4]
1798		William Bailey			James Galbraith
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Created a baronet in 1787
2. Also elected for Donegal County in 1783, for which he chose to sit
3. Created a baronet in 1789
4. Also elected for Bangor in 1797, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 504

• Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885

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.