Naas (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Naas
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Kildare
BoroughNaas
 () ( ())–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Naas was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801. The Parliament of Ireland merged with the Parliament of Great Britain to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. Thereafter Naas was represented by the Members for Kildare.

Members of Parliament

  • 1559–1560 John Sherlock and Henry Draycott[1]
  • 1585 James Sherlock and Walter Lewes[2]
  • 1613–1615 Christopher Sherlock and William Lattin[2]
  • 1634–1635 Christopher Sherlock and William Archbold[2]
  • 1639–1642 Christopher Sherlock (expelled for non-attendance) and Nicholas Sutton (expelled for rebellion)[3]
  • 1642–1649 Dr Dudley Loftus[2]
  • 1661–1662 George Carr[2] and Sir John Hoey[1]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Viscount Dungan Charles White
1692 John Aylmer Nicholas Jones
1695 Richard Nevill James Barry
1703 Alexander Gradon Francis Spring
1711 James Barry
1713 Thomas Burgh Theobald Bourke
1727 John Bourke
1731 Thomas Burgh
1759 Richard Burgh
1761 Maurice Keating
1763 John Bourke[4][5]
1768 John Bourke
1777 Thomas Allan
1783 Hugh Carleton
1787 Sir Richard Gorges-Meredyth, 1st Bt
1790 John Bourke[6]
1791 James Bond[7]
1795 George Damer, Viscount Milton
January 1798 Hon. Thomas Pelham Hon. Francis Hely-Hutchinson
1798 John Macartney[8]
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 619.
  2. ^ a b c d e McGrath, Brid (30 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via tara.tcd.ie.
  3. ^ Griffiths, George (30 May 1890). "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ from 1776 Hon. John Bourke
  5. ^ from 1785 John Bourke, Lord Naas
  6. ^ from 1792 John Bourke, Lord Naas
  7. ^ from 1794 Sir James Bond, 1st Bt
  8. ^ from 1799 Sir John Macartney, 1st Bt

References