- Downpatrick (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Coordinates: 54°19′26″N 5°42′11″W / 54.324°N 5.703°W
Not to be confused with Down (Parliament of Ireland constituency).Downpatrick
Former constituencyCreated 1586 Post-Union Downpatrick Type Irish House of Commons Downpatrick was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
Contents
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Downpatrick was not represented.[1]
Members of Parliament, 1586–1801
- 1661–1666 Nicholas Ward
1689–1801
Election First member First party Second member Second party 1689 Downpatrick was not represented in the Patriot Parliament 1692 James Hamilton Nicholas Price 1695 Sir John Magill, 1st Bt Francis Annesley [note 1] 1703 Mathew Forde 1705 Isaac Manley 1713 Francis Annesley 1715 Sir Emanuel Moore, 3rd Bt Thomas Medlycott 1727 Edward Southwell Cromwell Price 1755 Bowen Southwell 1761 Mathew Forde Hon. Francis Charles Annesley 1771 Clotworthy Rowley 1776 Hon. Robert Henry Southwell 1783 Hon. Hercules Rowley [note 2] October 1783 Andrew Caldwell 1790 Jonathan Chetwood 1798 Josias Rowley 1801 Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Downpatrick Notes
- ^ Expelled in 1703
- ^ Also elected for Antrim County in 1783, for which he chose to sit
References
- ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 501
Bibliography
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0788419277.
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons
Categories:- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- Downpatrick
- Historic constituencies in County Down
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