County Donegal | |
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Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Donegal |
–1801 | |
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | County Donegal (UKHC) |
County Donegal was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. The county received two seats at Westminster thereafter.
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Donegal was not represented. [1] Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1613 | Sir John Vaughan [2] | Sir William Stewart [2] | ||||
1634 | ||||||
1639 | Sir Ralph Gore | Sir Paul Davys [2] | ||||
1656 | Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet | Thomas Newburgh | ||||
1661 | Charles Hamilton [3] | Richard Perkins [2] | ||||
1689 | County Donegal was not represented in the Patriot Parliament | |||||
1692 | Charles Hamilton | Gustavus Hamilton | ||||
1695 | Henry Conyngham | |||||
1707 | Frederick Hamilton [note 1] | Whig | ||||
1713 | Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt | Whig | ||||
1716 | The Hon. Gustavus Hamilton | |||||
1727 | Alexander Montgomery | |||||
1730 | The Hon. Henry Hamilton | |||||
1735 | George Knox | |||||
1741 | Sir St George Gore-St George, 5th Bt | |||||
1743 | Andrew Knox | |||||
1747 | Sir Ralph Gore, 6th Bt | |||||
1765 | Robert Clements | |||||
1768 | John McCausland | Alexander Montgomery | Patriot | |||
1776 | Robert Clements | |||||
1783 | Henry Vaughan Brooke | |||||
1790 | ||||||
1800 | Viscount Sudley | |||||
1801 | Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Donegal |
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