Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained
| Swords |
| Type: | borough |
| Borough: | Swords |
| County: | County Dublin |
| Region: | Ireland |
| Parliament: | ihc |
| Abolished: | 1801 |
| Next: | Disfranchised |
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Members of Parliament
- 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor[1]
- 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)[1]
- 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson)[1]
- 1639–1642 John Taylor[2] and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
- 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson[3]
- 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne[3]
1689–1801
| Election | | First member | First party | | Second member | Second party |
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| 1689 Patriot Parliament | | | | | | |
| 1692 | | | | | | < | -- party --> |
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| 1695 | | | |
| 1703 | | | Whig | | | |
| 1713 | | | < | -- party --> |
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| 1715 | | Richard Molesworth[4] | |
| 1727 | | | < | -- party --> | | Edward Bolton | |
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| 1759 | | | < | -- party --> |
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| 1761 | | | |
| 1768 | | | | | | |
| 1776 | | | | | | |
| 1783 | | | | | | |
| 1790 | | | | | | |
| January 1798 | | | < | -- party --> | | | |
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| 1798 | | | |
| 1801 | | Constituency disenfranchised | |
Notes
Notes and References
- A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. 2262/77206. 1998. Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. thesis. McGrath. Bríd.
- Web site: Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877. 1890. Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office.
- Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 614.
- from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
