Bannow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Bannow
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Wexford
Borough	Bannow
–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

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

Borough

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Bannow in County Wexford.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Bannow was represented with two members. ^[1] Following the Acts of Union 1800 the borough was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

• 1634–1635: Pierce Neville and Walter Furlong (or Walter Stapleton) ^[2]
• 1639–1649: Christopher Hollywood (expelled 1642) and Gerald Cheevers (expelled 1642) ^[2]
• 1661–1666: Dr Dudley Loftus and Henry Warren ^[3]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Francis Plowden			Alexius Stafford
1692		Nathaniel Boyse			John Cliffe
1715		James Boyse
1725		Samuel Boyse
1727					George Ogle
1730		William Harrison
1737		Nicholas Hume-Loftus [note 1]
1747					Hon. Henry Loftus
1761		Henry Mitchell
1768		Charles Tottenham			Robert Hellen
1776		Henry Loftus			Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
1790		Ponsonby Tottenham			Ephraim Carroll
1798		William Loftus
1799					Robert Shaw
February 1800					Joseph McClean
March 1800		Thomas Prior
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1751

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
2. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (Thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 638.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   978-0-7884-1927-0.
• 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.
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN   1-903688-09-4
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
• 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.