New Ross (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

New Ross
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Wexford
Borough	New Ross
()–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	New Ross

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

Members of Parliament

• 1560: Nicholas Heron and William Dormer ^[1]
• 1585: Jasper Duff and William Bennett ^[1]
• 1613–1615: Matthew Shee and James FitzHenry ^[1]
• 1634–1635: Nicholas Dormer and Peter Rothe ^[2]
• 1639–1649: Nicholas Dormer (expelled 1642) and Chichester Brook (expelled 1642) ^[1]
• 1661–1666: Sir Thomas Dancer, 1st Baronet and Henry Nicholls ^[3]

1689–1801

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Luke Dormer			Richard Butler
1692		Thomas Crawford			Sir Robert Doyne
1695					Francis Annesley
1703					Hon. Arthur Annesley	Tory
1707		Amyas Bushe
1711					Jeffrey Paul [4]
1713		Edward Jones
1715		Thomas Meredyth	Tory		Edward Worth
1727		Charles Tottenham			John Leigh
October 1759					Robert Leigh
November 1759		John Tottenham
1761		Charles Tottenham
1768		Charles Tottenham
1801	Replaced by Westminster constituency of New Ross

References

1. 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.
2. McGrath, Bríd. "A fragment of the Minute Book of the Corporation of New Ross, 1635" – via www.academia.edu.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 638.
4. At the general election in 1713 he was also returned for Co. Carlow, for which he chose to sit

• 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.