Thomastown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Thomastown
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
Borough	Thomastown
1541 (1541)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Thomastown was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. Following the Acts of Union 1800 the borough was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

• 1560 Francis Cosby and Henry Colley ^[1]
• 1585 Walter Sherlock and Robert Porter ^[1]
• 1613–1615 Robert Porter and Nicolas Robucke ^[1]
• 1634–1635 Patrick Sherlock and Jacob Walsh ^[1]
• 1639–1649 Seafoule Gibson ^[1] and Michael Wandesford ^[2]
• 1661–1666 Robert Shapcote (sat for Wicklow Borough and replaced 1661 by John Brett) and Thomas Burrell ^[3]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		Robert Grace, Snr			Robert Grace, Jnr
1692		William Harrison			John Hayes
1695		Christopher Hewetson			Arthur Bushe
1703		John Beauchamp
1713		Amyas Bushe
1715		William Flower			John Cuffe
1715		William Despard
1721		Richard Bettesworth
1727		Luke Gardiner			Nicholas Aylward
1755		Redmond Morres
1757					Hon. Joseph Leeson
1761		Alexander McAuley			Thomas Eyre
1767		Lord Frederick Campbell
1768		James Agar			Thomas Maunsell
1769		George Dunbar
1776		Robert Forde			Edward Bellingham Swan
1783		George Roth			Patrick Welch
1786		George Bunbury
1790					George Burdett
1798		George Dunbar			James Kearney
March 1800		Hon. Charles William Stewart
April 1800					William Gardiner
May 1800		John Francis Cradock
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

See also

• Thomastown, a town in County Kilkenny
• Irish House of Commons
• List of Irish constituencies

References

1. McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Trinity College Dublin (TARA). hdl:2262/77206 . Retrieved 17 October 2020.
2. "Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885". Alex. Thom & Co. 1887.
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 621.

• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN   1-903688-09-4
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534–1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
• 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.