Strabane (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Strabane was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

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

Members of Parliament

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		James Montgomery			Daniel Molyneux
1634		Richard FitzGerald			Charles Mouncke
1639					James Galbraith
1661		Alexander Staples, expelled and repl, 1665 by Sir Peter Harvey			John Craige
1666		James Hamilton[1]
1689 Patriot Parliament		Christopher Nugent			Peter Donnelly
1692		Sir Matthew Bridges			Oliver McCausland
1695		Audley Mervyn
1703		James Topham
1713		Gustavus Hamilton
1715		Richard Stewart
1723					Henry Colley
1725					John McCausland
1727		Hon. Charles Hamilton
1729					Oliver McCausland
1733					William Hamilton
1761		Robert Lowry
1763					John Stuart Hamilton [lower-alpha 1]
1765		George Montgomery
1768		William Brownlow
1769		Claude Hamilton
1776		Henry Pomeroy [lower-alpha 2]
January 1798		Nathaniel Montgomery-Moore			John Stewart
1798					Andrew Knox
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes and references

1. from 1781 Sir John Hamilton, 1st Bt
2. from 1783 Hon. Henry Pomeroy

1. Paul 1904, p. 56, bottom: "In 1666 he was elected Member of Parliament for the borough of Strabane, and took the seat on 3 July in that year ..."

• Paul, Sir James Balfour (1904), The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, 1, Edinburgh: David Douglas – Abercorn to Balmerino

Further reading

• Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2007), History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, ISBN 9781903688717

External links

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