Ardee (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Ardee | |
---|---|
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons |
|
Former constituency | |
Created | 1378 |
Abolished | 1801 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Ardee (also known as Ardee Borough) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1378 to 1801.
Contents
History
Ardee in County Louth was enfranchised as a borough constituency in 1378. In 1665 the Lord Lieutenant (James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde) wrote to the Portreeve of Ardee recommending Sir Robert Byron, as Burgess in Parliament for Ardee, in the room of Captain John Chambers, "removed" and Colonel Brent Moore, in the "stead of Lieutenant John Ruxton, removed". In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Ardee was represented by two members.[1] It continued to send two Members of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons until the Parliament of Ireland was merged into the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. The constituency was disenfranchised on 31 December 1800.
The borough was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as part of the county constituency of Louth.
Electoral system and electorate
The parliamentary representatives of the borough were elected using the bloc vote for two-member elections and first past the post for single-member by-elections.
A summary of the borough electorate was included in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837. The electorate consisted of the members of the Borough Corporation (the local Council) and the freemen. All of the classes of electors qualified because of co-option by all or part of the existing ones, so this was a constituency with an oligarchic constitution rather than a democratic one.
Members of Parliament
- 1559-1559 ?
- 1568-1571 ?
- 1585-1586 Robert Barnewall and ?[citation needed]
- 1613-1615 ?
- 1634-1635 ?
- 1639-1643 Henry Moore
- 1665-1666 Erasmus Smith;[2] Sir Richard Stephens
- 1661-1666 John Chambers[citation needed] and John Ruxton[citation needed]; replaced by (1665) Sir Robert Byron[citation needed] vice Chambers and Brent Moore[citation needed] vice Ruxton (expelled)
1689–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1689 Patriot Parliament | Hugh Gernon | John Babe | ||||
1692 | Henry Tichborne | James Tisdall | ||||
1695 | Brabazon Moore | |||||
1703 | Robert Chambre | |||||
1713 | Michael Tisdall | |||||
1715 | William Moore | |||||
1727 | Robert Parkinson | John Donnellan | ||||
1741 | Tichborne Aston | |||||
1748 | William Ruxton | |||||
1751 | John Ruxton | |||||
1761 | Charles Ruxton | |||||
1768 | George Lowther | |||||
1776 | Francis McNamara | Peter Metge | ||||
1783 | John Ruxton | Charles Ruxton | ||||
1785 | William Ruxton | |||||
1790 | William Parkinson Ruxton | John Wolfe [note 1] | ||||
1798 | Charles Ruxton | William Ruxton | ||||
1799 | William Parkinson Ruxton | |||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
Notes
- ↑ Styled as The Honourable from 1795
References
Bibliography
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 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.
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2011
- 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 Louth
- 1378 establishments in Ireland
- Constituencies established in 1378
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800