Tuam (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Tuam
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Galway
Borough Tuam
1614 (1614)–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Tuam was a borough constituency which elected two MPs representing Tuam, County Galway, to the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was incorporated by a 1614 charter of James I. It originally belonged to the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam, before later passing into the control of the Clanmorris branch of the Bingham family. It was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800. [1]

Contents

Members of Parliament

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1613Sir Thomas Rotherham [2] Damien Pecke [2]
1634
1639Henry Bringhurst [2]
1661 Sir Thomas Bramhall, Bt
Sat for Dungannon
Geffrey Browne
(mis-elected) [3]
1661Robert Ormesby - diedHumphrey Abdy [3]
1665 Sir Richard Lane, Bt
1689 James Lally William Bourk
1692 Sir Francis Brewster Gilbert Ormsby
1703 Agmondisham Vesey
1713 Charles Stuart
1715 William Vesey
1739 John Bingham
1750 Henry Bingham
1761 Henry Bingham
1768 William Hull [4] Richard Power
1772 Hugh Carleton
1776 James Browne Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Bt
October 1783 James Cuffe David La Touche
1783 Robert Day Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Bt
1790 Thomas Lighton [5] Jonah Barrington Irish Patriot
1798 John Bingham Walter Aglionby Yelverton
1800 George Vesey
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. "Tuam". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 . Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 617.
  4. from 1773 William Tonson
  5. from 1791 Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt

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