Lifford (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

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

Members of Parliament

Election	First MP			Second MP
1613		Francis Blundell			William Disney
July 1634		Roger Mainwaring [note 1]			Jerome Alexander
October 1634		Matthew Mainwaring
1639		William Wandesford			Robert Nettleton
1661		Edward Tarleton			Hugh Berkeley
1692		Hugh Hamill			John Montgomery
1698					Robert King
1703					David Creighton
1709		Robert King
1711		Michael Sampson
1719		Richard Hamilton
1727		Abraham Creighton
1729					Thomas Montgomery
1761					John Creighton
1768		Abraham Creighton
1773					James Cavendish
1776					Sir Nicholas Lawless
1789					Edward Cooke
1790					Viscount Creighton
1798					John Creighton
1801		Disenfranchised

1. Also elected for Banagher, for which he chose to sit.

References

• Return of Members of Parliament (1878), vol. ii, p. 611.
• 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.