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Baltimore
Baltimore
Former borough constituency; for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Cork
Borough	Baltimore
1614–1801
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Baltimore was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.

Borough

This constituency was a parliamentary borough based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.

Potwalloper

A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801. A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or wallop, a cauldron, or pot. The electors for Baltimore were tenants at will of the Freke family.^[1]

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Baltimore was represented with two members.^[2]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Baltimore, Incorporated 25 March 1613.

1613–1615
- 1613 Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet
- 1613 Henry Piers
1634–1635
- 1634 Lott Peere, absent in England and replaced 1634 by James Travers
- 1634 Edward Skipwith,
1639–1641
- 1639 Bryan Jones
- 1639 Henry Knyveton
1661–1666
- 1661 Sir Nicholas Purdon
- 1661 Richard Townsend

1689–1801

Election	First member	Second member
1689 Patriot Parliament	Daniel O'Donovan	Jeremiah O'Donovan
1692	Thomas Beecher	Edward Richardson
1703		Percy Freke
1707		Edward Riggs
1709	Francis Langston	Edward Riggs
1713	Richard Barry	Michael Beecher
1715	William Southwell
1721	Sir Percy Freke, 2nd Bt
1727	Sir Percy Freke, 2nd Bt	Richard Tonson
1728	Sir John Freke, 3rd Bt^{[note 1]}
1761	William Clements
1768	Sir John Evans-Freke, 1st Bt
1771	Sir John Evans-Freke, 1st Bt	Jocelyn Deane
1777	William Evans	Jocelyn Deane
1781	William Evans	James Chatterton
1783	Viscount Sudley	Richard Longfield
1790	Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt	Richard Grace
1798	Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt	George Evans-Freke
1801	Disenfranchised

Notes

^ Also elected for Cork City in 1761, for which he chose to sit

References

^ "Baltimore". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
^ O'Hart 2007, p. 500.

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.
Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 February 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8
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.