Enniscorthy (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Enniscorthy
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Wexford
Borough	Enniscorthy
1613 (1613)–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Enniscorthy was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History

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

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

• 1613–1615, Sir Edward Fisher and Richard Perkins ^[2]
• 1634–1635, Sir Arthur Loftus and Thomas Newcomen ^[2]
• 1639–1649, William Swanton and Ralph Waddington (unseated and replaced by Sir Thomas Esmond, 1st Baronet, (expelled 1642)) ^{[2] [3]}
• 1661, Timothy Stampe and James Napper (Napper AWOL and replaced in 1662 by George Carleton) ^[2]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		James Devereux			Dudley Colclough
1689					Arthur Waddington
1692		Richard Barry			John Seymour
September 1703		Morley Saunders			John Asgill [note 1]
1703					William Berry
1713					Richard Le Hunt
1715		William Berry
1740		Anderson Saunders
1747					Hon. Thomas George Southwell
1761		Beauchamp Bagenal			John Grogan
1768					Cornelius Grogan
1769		Sir Edward Newenham	Patriot
1776		Frederick Flood [note 2]			Mountifort Longfield
October 1783		William Alexander English [note 3]
1783		Conway Heatley
1790		Vesey Colclough
1795		Robert Cornwall
January 1798					William Congreve Alcock [note 4]
1798					Thomas Whaley
February 1800		Peter Burrowes
June 1800		Thomas Dawson
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Expelled in 1703
2. Created a baronet in 1780
3. Declared not duly elected in 1783
4. Also elected for Waterford City in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
2. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (Thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
3. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume II (Exeter, 1902) page 255.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   978-0-7884-1927-0.
• 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.