Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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| Swords | |
|---|---|
| Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons |
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| Former constituency | |
| Created | |
| Abolished | 1801 |
| Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Members of Parliament
- 1661-1666 John Povey
1692–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1692 | Richard Forster | John Reading | ||||
| 1695 | Thomas Ashe | |||||
| 1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | James Peppard | |||
| 1713 | Plunket Plunket | |||||
| 1715 | Richard Molesworth [1] | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
- ↑ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth
References
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons([self-published source][better source needed]) cites: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP-IE template as a citation
- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- Historic constituencies in County Dublin
- Swords, Dublin
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800
