Sligo Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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| Sligo Borough | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Sligo |
| Borough | Sligo |
| ?–1801 | |
| Replaced by | Sligo Borough |
Sligo was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1613–1615 Henry Andrews and Edward Southworth[1]
- 1634–1635 Arthur Jones and Edward Southworth[1]
- 1639–1645 Keane O'Hara and Thomas Radcliffe (expelled)[1]
- 1661–1666 Sir Henry Tichborne and Samuel Bathurst[2]
1689–1801
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Terence MacDonogh | James French | ||||
| 1692 | Percy Gethin | Theophilus Jones | ||||
| 1695 | Roger Smith | |||||
| 1703 | Samuel Walton | |||||
| 1713 | Samuel Burton | Owen Wynne | ||||
| 1727 | Francis Ormsby | |||||
| 1751 | John Wynne | |||||
| 1757 | William Ormsby | |||||
| 1761 | John Folliott | |||||
| 1762 | Robert Scott | |||||
| 1768 | John Wynne | |||||
| 1776 | Owen Wynne | Richard Hely-Hutchinson | ||||
| October 1783 | John Foster | |||||
| 1783 | Thomas Dawson | |||||
| 1789 | Robert Wynne | |||||
| May 1790 | John Cole, Viscount Cole | |||||
| 1790 | Owen Wynne | |||||
| January 1798 | John Cole, Viscount Cole | |||||
| 1798 | Owen Wynne | |||||
| 1799 | William Wynne | |||||
| 1801 | Succeeded by Westminster constituency Sligo Borough | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 632.
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.