Baltinglass (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Baltinglass
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Wicklow
Borough Baltinglass
1664 (1664) (1664 (1664))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Baltinglass was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

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Borough

This was a parliamentary borough based in the town of Baltinglass in County Wicklow.

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Baltinglass was not represented. [1]

Members of Parliament, 1664–1801

1689–1801

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689Baltinglass was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692 Sir James Shaen, 1st Bt Richard Thompson
1696 Charles Ricasey
1703 Edward Stratford
1715 Jeffrey Paul
1721 John Stratford
1727 Daniel Falkiner
1759 Edward Stratford [note 1]
1763 Hon. John Stratford
1768 Godfrey Lill
1775 Hon. Edward Stratford
1777 Hon. Benjamin Stratford John Godley
1783 Warden Flood James Somerville [note 2]
1784 Sir John Johnson, 1st Bt
1790 Hon. John Stratford Hon. Benjamin Stratford
1801Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. Styled as The Honourable from 1763
  2. Declared not duly elected in 1783

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References

  1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.

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