County Kildare (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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County Kildare
Former county constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Kildare
1297 (1297) (1297 (1297))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced by Kildare

County Kildare was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1297 [1] to 1801.

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History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Kildare was represented with two members. [2]

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament John Wogan George Aylmer
1692 George FitzGerald Robert FitzGerald
1698 Henry Colley
1703 Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Bt Thomas Keightley
1709 Joshua Allen [note 1]
1715 Brabazon Ponsonby [note 2]
1725 Francis Alen
1727 Richard Allen Maurice Keating
1745 Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Bt
1761 Arthur Pomeroy
1776 Lord Charles FitzGerald
1783 John Wolfe
1790 Lord Edward FitzGerald Patriot/Whig Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keating
1798 John La Touche
1801 Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Kildare

Notes

  1. Styled as The Honourable from 1717
  2. Styled as The Honourable from 1721

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">High Sheriff of Kildare</span>

The High Sheriff of Kildare was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Kildare, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Kildare County Sheriff. The High Sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs. In 1908, an Order in Council made the Lord Lieutenant the Sovereign's prime representative in a county and reduced the High Sheriff's precedence. However, the sheriff retained his responsibilities for the preservation of law and order in the county. The usual procedure for appointing the sheriff from 1660 onwards was that three persons were nominated at the beginning of each year from the county and the Lord Lieutenant then appointed his choice as High Sheriff for the remainder of the year. Often the other nominees were appointed as under-sheriffs. Sometimes a sheriff did not serve his full term due to death or another event, and another sheriff was then appointed for the remainder of the year. The dates given in this article are the dates of appointment.

References

  1. Bentham, William (1831). "Dignities, Feudal and Parliamentary". The National Magazine. 2 (4): 264. doi:10.2307/30058467. ISSN   2009-1656.
  2. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
  3. 1 2 3 4 McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  4. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 618.

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