Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Swords
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Dublin
Borough Swords
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Contents

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Francis Barnwall Robert Russell
1692 Richard Forster John Reading
1695 Thomas Ashe
1703 Robert Molesworth Whig James Peppard
1713 Plunket Plunket
1715 Richard Molesworth [4]
1727 Hon. Bysse Molesworth Edward Bolton
1759 Thomas Cobbe
1761 Hamilton Gorges
1768 John Hatch John Damer
1776 Thomas Cobbe Charles King
1783 Charles Cobbe John Hatch
1790 John Claudius Beresford Eyre Massey
January 1798 Francis Synge Charles Cobbe
1798 Marcus Beresford
1801Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 McGrath, Bríd (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.
  2. ↑ "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. 1890.
  3. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
  4. ↑ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth

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