Banagher (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Banagher
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County King's County
Borough Banagher
1629 (1629) (1629 (1629))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Banagher was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Contents

History

Banagher had two members in the 1689 Patriot Parliament summoned by King James II. [1]

Members of Parliament, 1629–1801

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Terence Coghlan Terence Coghlan
1692 Thomas Lestrange William Sprigge
1703George Eyre
1711 Charles Patrick Plunket
1713 Peter Holmes
1715 Thomas Lestrange
1727 George Holmes
1729 William Sprigge
1734 Galbraith Holmes [note 1]
November 1735 Robert Holmes [note 1]
December 1735 Richard Trench Henry Lestrange
1761 Peter Holmes John Pigott
1764 Sir John Meade, 4th Bt
1767 Henry Prittie
1768 Thomas Coghlan
1776 James Cavendish
1783 Richard Malone
1785 Edward Bellingham Swan
1790 Edward Hoare John Metge
January 1798 John Brabazon Ponsonby [note 2]
1798 Arthur Dawson
1798 John Metge [note 3]
1798 Edward Hoare
1800 John Philpot Curran Patriot
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. 1 2 Declared not duly elected in 1735
  2. Also elected for Dungarvan in 1798, for which he chose to sit
  3. Also elected for Tallow in 1798, for which he chose to sit

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References

  1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
  2. Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
  3. McGrath, Brid (29 May 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641" via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  4. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 622.

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