| County Wicklow | |
| Type: | county |
| Region: | Ireland |
| County: | County Wicklow |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1801 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Sests: | 2 |
| Previous: | County Wicklow (IHC) |
County Wicklow was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
At the 1885 general election, under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, County Wicklow was divided into two parliamentary divisions: East Wicklow and West Wicklow.
This constituency comprised the whole of County Wicklow.
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | William Hoare Hume | < | -- party --> | vacant until the by-election held in Jan 1801 | |||
| Jan 1801 | George Ponsonby | Whig | |||||
| 1806 | William Tighe | < | -- party --> | ||||
| Feb 1816 | Hon. Granville Proby | Whig[1] | |||||
| Apr 1816 | George Ponsonby | Whig | |||||
| Aug 1817 | William Parnell-Hayes | ||||||
| 1821 | James Grattan | Whig[2] | |||||
| Jul 1829 | Sir Ralph Howard, Bt | Whig[3] [4] | |||||
| 1841 | William Acton | Conservative | |||||
| 1847 | Viscount Milton | Whig[5] [6] [7] [8] | |||||
| Apr 1848 | Sir Ralph Howard, Bt | Whig | |||||
| 1852 | William Wentworth FitzWilliam Dick | Conservative | |||||
| Feb 1858 | Lord Proby | Whig[9] | |||||
| 1859 | Liberal | ||||||
| Nov 1868 | Hon. Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam | Liberal | |||||
| 1874 | William Richard O'Byrne | Home Rule League | |||||
| 1880 | William Joseph Corbet | Parnellite Home Rule League}} | James Carlile McCoan | Parnellite Home Rule League}} | |||
| 1881 | Independent | ||||||
| 1885 | Constituency divided: see East Wicklow and West Wicklow | ||||||
Acton resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Wentworth-FitzWilliam succeeded to the peerage, becoming 6th Earl FitzWilliam, causing a by-election.
Proby was appointed Comptroller of the Household, requiring a by-election.