Tuam (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Appearance
Tuam | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Galway |
Borough | Tuam |
1614 | –1801|
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Tuam was a
James I. It originally belonged to the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam, before later passing into the control of the Clanmorris branch of the Bingham family. It was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
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1613 | Sir Thomas Rotherham[2] | Damien Pecke[2] | |||||
1634 | |||||||
1639 | Henry Bringhurst[2] | ||||||
1661 | Sir Thomas Bramhall, Bt (mis-elected - replaced 1661 by Humphrey Abdy) |
Geffrey Browne[3] | |||||
1689 Patriot Parliament | James Lally | William Bourk | |||||
1692 | Sir Francis Brewster | Gilbert Ormsby | |||||
1703 | Agmondisham Vesey | ||||||
1713 | Charles Stuart | ||||||
1715 | William Vesey | ||||||
1739 | John Bingham | ||||||
1750 | Henry Bingham | ||||||
1761 | Henry Bingham | ||||||
1768 | William Hull[4] | Richard Power | |||||
1772 | Hugh Carleton | ||||||
1776 | James Browne | Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Bt | |||||
October 1783 | James Cuffe | David La Touche | |||||
1783 | Robert Day | Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Bt | |||||
1790 | Thomas Lighton[5] | Jonah Barrington | Irish Patriot | ||||
1798 | John Bingham | Walter Aglionby Yelverton | |||||
1800 | George Vesey | ||||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
Notes
References
- 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.