Donegal Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Donegal
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Donegal
Borough	Donegal
1613 (1613)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Donegal was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		William Crofton			Walter White
1634		William Crofton			Gilbert Domville
1639		Andrew Wilson			William Dixon
1661		Henry Brooke [note 1]			Thomas Juxon
1689		Donegal Borough was not represented in the Patriot Parliament [2]
1692		William Conolly	Whig		John Hamilton
1695					William Gore
1703		Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt	Whig		Richard Jones
1713		Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Bt [note 2]	Whig		George Macartney
1715		Henry Maxwell	Whig		Robert Miller
1725					Alexander Montgomery
1727					Arthur Gore [note 3]
1730		John Folliott
1759					Hon. Arthur Saunders Gore
1761		Robert Doyne			John Knox
1768		Viscount Sudley			Richard Gore
1774		Barry Yelverton [note 4]	Patriot
1776					James Cuffe [note 5]
June 1776		Henry Vaughan Brooke
1777					Robert Longfield
1779					Henry Cope
October 1783		Henry Hatton			Viscount Sudley [note 6]
1783					Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt
1790		William Downes			Humphrey Butler
1797		William Keller
1798		Hugh O'Donnell			William Cusack-Smith
1799		Charles Kendal Bushe
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Knighted in 1664 ^[1]
2. Also elected for County Mayo in 1715, for which he chose to sit
3. Succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1741
4. Also elected for Carrickfergus in 1776, for which he chose to sit
5. Also elected for County Mayo in 1776, for which he chose to sit.
6. Also elected for Baltimore in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References

1. W. A. Shaw and G. D. Burtchaell, The Knights of England, vol. II (1906) p. 239.
2. O'Hart 2007, p. 501.

Bibliography

• Return of Members of Parliament, Part II (1878).
• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   0-7884-1927-7.
• 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.