Donegal
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Donegal
BoroughDonegal
1613 (1613) (1613 (1613))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Donegal was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1613William CroftonWalter White
1634William CroftonGilbert Domville
1639Andrew WilsonWilliam Dixon
1661Henry Brooke[note 1]Thomas Juxon
1689 Donegal Borough was not represented in the Patriot Parliament[2]
1692 William Conolly Whig John Hamilton
1695 William Gore
1703 Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt Whig Richard Jones
1713 Sir Arthur Gore, 2nd Bt[note 2] Whig George Macartney
1715 Henry Maxwell Whig Robert Miller
1725 Alexander Montgomery
1727 Arthur Gore[note 3]
1730 John Folliott
1759 Hon. Arthur Saunders Gore
1761 Robert Doyne John Knox
1768 Viscount Sudley Richard Gore
1774 Barry Yelverton[note 4] Patriot
1776 James Cuffe[note 5]
June 1776 Henry Vaughan Brooke
1777 Robert Longfield
1779 Henry Cope
October 1783 Henry Hatton Viscount Sudley[note 6]
1783 Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt
1790 William Downes Humphrey Butler
1797 William Keller
1798 Hugh O'Donnell William Cusack-Smith
1799 Charles Kendal Bushe
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ↑ Knighted in 1664[1]
  2. ↑ Also elected for County Mayo in 1715, for which he chose to sit
  3. ↑ Succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1741
  4. ↑ Also elected for Carrickfergus in 1776, for which he chose to sit
  5. ↑ Also elected for County Mayo in 1776, for which he chose to sit.
  6. ↑ Also elected for Baltimore in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References

  1. ↑ W. A. Shaw and G. D. Burtchaell, The Knights of England, vol. II (1906) p. 239.
  2. ↑ O'Hart 2007, p. 501.

Bibliography

  • Return of Members of Parliament, Part II (1878).
  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
  • 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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