Wicklow (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

For the county constituency, see County Wicklow (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Wicklow

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

Wicklow was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Wicklow in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

## Members of Parliament

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* 1613–1615 Sir William Ussher and Sir Laurence Esmonde[1]
* 1634–1635 William Ussher and James Byrne[2]
* 1639–1649 Richard Parsons (died and replaced in 1642 by John Hill. Hill then died and was replaced in 1645 by Joshua Carpenter) and John Hoey[2]
* 1661–1665 Robert Shapcote and Roger Sotheby[2]

### 1689–1801

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Election | First MP | Second MP

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1689 |  | Francis Toole |  |  | Thomas Byrne |
1692  |  | Nathaniel King |  |  | Sir Richard Reynell, 2nd Baronet |
1695  |  | William Robinson |
1696  |  | Christopher Carleton |
1703  |  | John Price |
1704  |  | Sir William Fownes |
1705  |  | Joshua Dawson |
1713 |  | Henry Percy |
1715  |  | Richard Edwards |  |  | Samuel Walter Whitshed |
1723  |  | James Whitshed |
1735  |  | Thomas Theaker |
1747  |  | James Whitshed |
1751  |  | Edmund Sexton Pery | Patriot
1761 |  | William Tighe |  |  | William Whitshed |
1767  |  | Richard William Tighe |
1768  |  | Edward Tighe |
1771  |  | John Talbot Dillon |
1776  |  | Sir William Fownes, 2nd Bt |
1777  |  | Hon. Robert Ward |
1778  |  | George Ponsonby |
October 1783  |  | John Lloyd |  |  | Edward Tighe |
1783 |  | Samuel Hayes |
1790  |  | William Tighe |
1798  |  | Daniel Gahan |  |  | William Henry Armstrong |
1800  |  | Henry Grattan | Patriot
1801  |  | Constituency disenfranchised

## References

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1. ^ McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
2. ^ a b c Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 639.

* 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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Parliamentary constituencies in County Wicklow

Parliament of Ireland
to 1800|

* County Wicklow (????-1800)
* Baltinglass (1664-1800)
* Blessington (1670-1800)
* Carysfort (1629-1800)
* Wicklow (1614-1800)

Westminster 1801-1922
and First Dáil 1918|

* Wicklow (1801-1885)
* East Wicklow (1885-1922)
* West Wicklow (1885-1922)

Dáil Éireann
1918–present|

| Historic|

* Kildare–Wicklow (1921-1923)

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Current|

* Wicklow (1923-)
* Wicklow–Wexford (2024-)

European Parliament
1979-present|

* Leinster (1979-2004)
* East (2004-2014)
* South (2014-)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland|

* Carlow
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* Meath
* Monaghan
* Offaly
* Roscommon
* Sligo
* Tipperary
* Waterford
* Westmeath
* Wexford
* Wicklow

Northern Ireland|

* Antrim
* Armagh
* Down
* Fermanagh
* Londonderry
* Tyrone

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