Clonmines (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Clonmines
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Wexford
Borough Clonmines
–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Clonmines was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. It was a rotten borough associated with the deserted Norman borough of Clonmines, in southwest County Wexford.

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History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Clonmines was represented with two members. [1]

Members of Parliament

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1689 Edward Sherlock Nicholas White
1692 Henry Loftus Thomas Philips
1695 Maurice Annesley
1703 James Butler Walter Bunbury
1713 Nicholas Loftus George Houghton
1715 Philip Doyne
November 1727 Thomas Loftus Henry Ponsonby [note 1]
1727 Edward Corker
1734 William Tighe
1761 Henry Alcock Charles Tottenham
1768 Henry Loftus
1776 Arthur Loftus Charles Tottenham
1781 Thomas Loftus [note 2]
1790 Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
1791 William Tankerville Chamberlain
1794 Charles Eustace
1798 Ponsonby Tottenham Luke Fox
1799 Henry Luttrell
1800 Henry Eustace
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ↑ Also elected for Inistioge in 1727, for which he chose to sit
  2. ↑ Also elected for Fethard (County Wexford) in 1790, for which he chose to sit

References

  1. ↑ O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
  2. 1 2 3 McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.

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