Naas (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

Naas was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801. The Parliament of Ireland merged with the Parliament of Great Britain to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. Thereafter Naas was represented by the Members for Kildare.

Members of Parliament

• 1559–1560 John Sherlock and Henry Draycott ^[1]
• 1585 James Sherlock and Walter Lewes ^[2]
• 1613–1615 Christopher Sherlock and William Lattin ^[2]
• 1634–1635 Christopher Sherlock and William Archbold ^[2]
• 1639–1642 Christopher Sherlock (expelled for non-attendance) and Nicholas Sutton (expelled for rebellion) ^[3]
• 1642–1649 Dr Dudley Loftus ^[2]
• 1661–1662 George Carr ^[2] and Sir John Hoey ^[1]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Viscount Dungan			Charles White
1692		John Aylmer			Nicholas Jones
1695		Richard Nevill			James Barry
1703		Alexander Gradon			Francis Spring
1711					James Barry
1713		Thomas Burgh			Theobald Bourke
1727					John Bourke
1731		Thomas Burgh
1759		Richard Burgh
1761					Maurice Keating
1763		John Bourke [4] [5]
1768					John Bourke
1777					Thomas Allan
1783					Hugh Carleton
1787					Sir Richard Gorges-Meredyth, 1st Bt
1790					John Bourke [6]
1791		James Bond [7]
1795					George Damer, Viscount Milton
January 1798		Hon. Thomas Pelham			Hon. Francis Hely-Hutchinson
1798		John Macartney [8]
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 619.
2. McGrath, Brid (30 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via tara.tcd.ie.
3. Griffiths, George (30 May 1890). "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office – via Internet Archive.
4. from 1776 Hon. John Bourke
5. from 1785 John Bourke, Lord Naas
6. from 1792 John Bourke, Lord Naas
7. from 1794 Sir James Bond, 1st Bt
8. from 1799 Sir John Macartney, 1st Bt

References

• 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.