Inistioge
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Kilkenny
BoroughInistioge
 () ( ())–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Inistioge or Innistiogue was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Inistioge was represented with two members.[1]

Members of Parliament

  • 1585 David Power and Robert Archdeacon[2]
  • 1613–1615 William Murphy and Crihen Murphy[2]
  • 1634–1635 Griffen Murphy and James Dulan (or Neilan)[2]
  • 1639–1649 John Wandesford[3] and Robert Loftus (Loftus died and replaced 1640 by John Fitzgerald)[2]
  • 1661–1666 Sir William Petty[4] and Joseph Deane[5]

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Edward FitzGerald James Bolger
1692 Edward Deane Robert Stopford
1695 Thomas Keightley
1703 Edward Deane Benjamin Portlock
1713 Charles Monck
1715 Edward Deane
1717 Stephen Deane[note 1]
1727 Folliot Ponsonby[note 1]
November 1727 Henry Ponsonby
1745 Edward Deane
1749 Edward Herbert
1751 Joseph Deane
1761 Joseph Deane John Hobson
1768 Joseph Matthews Lodge Evans Morres
1776 Edward Tighe[note 2] John Lloyd[note 3]
1777 John Flood John Parnell[note 4]
1783 George Ponsonby John Ussher
1790 John Lloyd
1797 Henry Tighe
1798 William Tighe
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. 1 2 Declared not duly elected in 1727
  2. ↑ Also elected for Athboy in 1776, for which he chose to sit
  3. ↑ Also elected for King's County in 1776, for which he chose to sit
  4. ↑ Succeeded as 2nd Baronet in 1782

References

  1. ↑ O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
  2. 1 2 3 4 McGrath, Brid (24 October 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 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  3. ↑ "Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885". Alex. Thom & Co. 1887. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  4. ↑ McCormick, Ted. William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic. p. 123.
  5. ↑ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.

Bibliography

  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
  • 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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