Clogher (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Clogher was a borough constituency in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. It represented the "city" of Clogher in County Tyrone. The city, actually no more than a village, gained its importance as the site of the cathedral of the Church of Ireland diocese of Clogher. The constituency was a rotten borough in the gift of the bishop. When the constituency was disestablished, bishop John Porter's claim for £15,000 compensation was disallowed.[1]

Clogher
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1264
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Members of Parliament, 1264–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		George Watkins			William Ferrar
1634		Sir Henry Spotteswood			Edward Ascough
1639		George Wandesford			Henry Mannings
1661		Edward Cook			Matthew Draper, died and repl. 1661 by John Paine
1689		Clogher was not represented in the Patriot Parliament[2]
1692		Edward Davis			John Rogerson [note 1]
August 1695		William Wolseley [note 2]			Richard Johnston
1695		Henry Tenison [note 3]
1696		Sir Robert Staples, 4th Bt
1703		Richard St George			Henry St George
1713					Thomas Ashe
1723					James Coghill
1727		Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt			Silvester Crosse
1731					Walter Carey [note 4]
1733		Richard Vincent
1757					Nehemiah Nixon Donnellan
1761		Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt			Samuel Lowe
1765					William Moore
1768		John Staples
1776		Sir Capel Molyneux, 3rd Bt			Thomas St George
1783		Sackville Hamilton
1785					John Francis Cradock
1790					Richard Townsend Herbert
1795		Hon. Thomas Pelham
January 1798		Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt			Thomas Burgh
1798		Jonah Barrington	Irish Patriot
January 1800		William Gardiner [note 5]			Hon. Richard Annesley [note 5]
March 1800		John King			Charles Ball
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Knighted in 1693
2. Also elected for Longford Borough in 1695, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Monaghan County in 1695, for which he chose to sit.
4. Also spelt 'Cary'
5. Declared not duly elected in 1800

References

1. Gale, Peter (1834). "Appendix XXIV". An inquiry into the ancient corporate system of Ireland. London: Richard Bentley. pp. clxiv.
2. O'Hart (2007), p. 501

• 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.