Carlingford (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Carlingford was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Carlingford
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1801
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

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

Members of Parliament

• 1559: John Neill and Sir Henry Radclyffe [2]
• 1585: Robert Neill and Rice ap Hugh [2]
• 1613–1615: Marmaduke Whitechurch and Sir Roger Hope [3]
• 1634–1635: John Travers and Joshua Carpenter [4]
• 1639–1643: Joshua Carpenter (died and replaced 1642 by Chichester Fortescue) and Bernard Saunders [2] (Fortescue and Saunders both died in office 1642) [5]
• 1643–1649 Edward Trevor and Edmund Keating [5]
• 1661–1666: Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Edward Vernon [5]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Christopher Peppard FitzIgnatius			Bryan Dermod
1692		Elnathan Lum			Zaccheus Sedgwick
August 1695		Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Bt
1695					Elnathan Lum
1703		Charles Dering			Arthur Hill
1705					William Balfour
1713		Sir Hans Hamilton, 2nd Bt			James Stannus
1715		Blayney Townley
1721					William Stannus
1723		Robert Ross
1727					Harry Townley
1741					John Macarell
1757					William Townley-Balfour
1760					Blayney Townley-Balfour
1768		Robert Ross
1776		Thomas Knox [note 1]			Theophilus Blakeney
1783		Sir John Blaquiere [note 2]			Thomas Coghlan
1790		Sir Charles des Voeux, 1st Bt			James Blaquiere
January 1798		Robert Ross [note 3]			Robert Johnson [note 4]
1798		Richard Magenis			Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1781
2. Created a baronet in 1784
3. Also elected for Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
4. Also elected for Hillsborough in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 502
2. A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. 1998.
3. Stubbs, Major-General (1919). "County Louth Representatives in the Irish Parliament, 1613-1758". Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society. 4 (4): 311–317. doi:10.2307/27729225. JSTOR 27729225.
4. Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 225.
5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 626.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• 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.