Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Swords

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

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

## Members of Parliament

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* 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor[1]
* 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)[1]
* 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson )[1]
* 1639–1642 John Taylor[2] and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
* 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson[3]
* 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne[3]

### 1689–1801

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Election |  | First member | First party |  | Second member | Second party

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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 |
1801  |  | Constituency disenfranchised

### Notes

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1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
4. ^ from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth

## References

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* 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.

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