County Cork | |
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Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Cork |
–1801 | |
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | County Cork (UKHC) |
County Cork was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.
This constituency consisted of County Cork. It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland up to 1800.
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Cork was represented with two members. [1] Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained two parliamentary seats in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Justin McCarthy | Sir Richard Nagle | ||||
1692 | Sir St John Brodrick | Henry Boyle | ||||
1695 | Thomas Brodrick | Whig | ||||
1703 | Sir John Perceval, 5th Bt | |||||
1713 | Alan Brodrick | Whig | ||||
1715 | Henry Boyle | St John Brodrick | ||||
1728 | Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Bt | |||||
1747 | Arthur Hyde | |||||
1756 | Viscount Dungarvan | |||||
1759 | Richard Townsend | |||||
1761 | Viscount Boyle | |||||
1765 | Hon. John Lysaght | |||||
1768 | John Hyde | |||||
1776 | Sir Robert Deane, 6th Bt | |||||
1781 | James Bernard | |||||
1783 | Viscount Kingsborough | |||||
1791 | Abraham Morris | |||||
1797 | Viscount Boyle | |||||
1798 | Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald | |||||
1801 | Succeeded by the Westminster constituency County Cork |
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