County Kildare is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two MPs to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1801 to 1885.
Boundaries [ edit ] This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare .
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Date First member First party Second member Second party 1801, 1 January Maurice Keatinge John La Touche Whig 1802, 20 July Lord Robert FitzGerald Whig Robert La Touche 1806, 21 November Whig [1] 1807, 21 May Lord Henry FitzGerald [2] Whig 1814, 23 March Lord William FitzGerald Whig [3] 1830, 18 August Richard More O'Ferrall [4] Whig [3] [5] 1831, 9 May Sir Josiah Hort, Bt Whig [3] 1832, 21 December Edward Ruthven [6] Repeal Association [3] [7] 1837, 11 August Robert Archbold Whig [3] [8] 1847, 18 August Charles FitzGerald Whig [9] [10] [11] Richard Bourke Conservative [7] [9] [10] [11] 1852, 13 March William H. F. Cogan Radical [12] [13] 1852, 26 July David O'Connor Henchy Ind. Irish [7] Ind. Irish [7] 1857, 7 April Whig [14] Radical [12] [13] 1859, 19 May Richard More O'Ferrall [15] Whig 1859, 6 June Liberal Liberal 1865, 19 July Lord Otho FitzGerald [16] Liberal 1874, 12 February Charles Henry Meldon [17] Home Rule League 1880, 5 April James Leahy [18] Home Rule League 1882 Irish Parliamentary Irish Parliamentary
Elections [ edit ] Elections in the 1830s [ edit ] O'Ferrall was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s [ edit ] Elections in the 1850s [ edit ] Bourke was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ] FitzGerald was appointed Treasurer of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Fitzgerald was appointed Comptroller of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ Salmon, Philip. "LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844), of Harristown, co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 . ^ Resigned, 1813 ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 229–230. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books . ^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury . ^ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . p. 169. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books . ^ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 220, 285–286. ISBN 0901714127 . ^ Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1837). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc . p. 130. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books . ^ a b "County of Kildare" . Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent . 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ a b The Protestant Elector . p. 197. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books . ^ a b "General Election" . London Evening Standard . 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ a b "Ireland" . London Evening Standard . 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018 . ^ a b "The Evening Freeman" . 4 March 1852. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ "Defeat of the Ministry" . Wexford Independent . 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive . ^ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election. ^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household . Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household . ^ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882. ^ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882. ^ a b Salmon, Philip. "Co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 . ^ "The General Election" . Freeman's Journal . 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .