Augher (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Coordinates: 54°27′50″N 7°10′08″W / 54.464°N 7.169°W
Augher | |
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Former Corporation constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | 1614 |
Abolished | 1800 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Augher was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until the Acts of Union 1800 came into force on January 1, 1801.
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Augher was not represented.[1]
Members of Parliament, 1614–1801
- 1639–1640: John Cairnes
1613–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1613 | Ralph Birchenshaw | Edward Skorye | ||||
1634 | Robert Meredith | James Erskine | ||||
1639 | Robert Byron | William Peasley, replaced in 1641 by Robert Martin |
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1661 | Henry Mervyn | Richard Palfrey | ||||
1689 | Augher was not represented in the Patriot Parliament | |||||
1692 | James Moutray | Archibald Richardson | ||||
1695 | Sir Thomas Pakenham | David Creighton | ||||
1703 | James Moutray | John Hamilton | ||||
1713 | William Balfour | Henry Mervyn | ||||
1727 | Richard Tighe | |||||
1737 | William Richardson | |||||
1739 | Richard Gorges | |||||
1755 | St George Richardson | |||||
1761 | William Montgomery | James Moutray | ||||
1768 | Robert Rochfort | |||||
1776 | George Hamilton | Sir William Fortick | ||||
October 1783 | William Richardson [note 1] | Henry Vaughan Brooke [note 2] | ||||
1783 | Samuel Hayes [note 3] | |||||
1790 | Thomas Coghlan | Edmond Stanley | ||||
1794 | John Stewart [note 4] | |||||
1798 | William Bailey | James Galbraith | ||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
Notes
References
- ↑ O'Hart (2007), p. 504
Bibliography
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
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