Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)
| Kildare | |
|---|---|
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1801–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Replaced by | North Kildare and South Kildare |
A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.
Members of Parliament
| Date | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801, 1 January | Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keatinge | John La Touche | Whig | |||
| 1802, 20 July | Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald | Whig | Robert La Touche | |||
| 1806, 21 November | Whig | |||||
| 1807, 21 May | Lord Henry FitzGerald [1] | Whig | ||||
| 1813, 23 March | Lord William Charles O'Brien FitzGerald | Whig | ||||
| 1830, 18 August | Richard More O'Ferrall [2] | Whig | ||||
| 1831, 9 May | Sir Josiah William Hort, Bt | Whig | ||||
| 1832, 21 December | Edward Ruthven [3] | Repeal Association | ||||
| 1837, 11 August | Robert Archbold | Whig | ||||
| 1847, 18 August | Marquess of Kildare | Whig | Richard Southwell Bourke (became Lord Naas) | Conservative | ||
| 1852, 13 March | William Henry Ford Cogan [4] | Whig | ||||
| 1852, 26 July | David O'Connor Henchy [5] | Whig | ||||
| 1859, 19 May | Richard More O'Ferrall [6] | Whig | ||||
| 1859, 6 June | Liberal | Liberal | ||||
| 1865, 19 July | Lord Otho Augustus FitzGerald [7] | Liberal | ||||
| 1874, 12 February | Charles Henry Meldon [8] | Home Rule League | ||||
| 1880, 5 April | James Leahy [9] | Home Rule League | ||||
| 1882 | Irish Parliamentary | Irish Parliamentary | ||||
- ↑ Resigned, 1813
- ↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
- ↑ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
- ↑ Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857 and 1859. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election. Re-elected as a Liberal in 1865, 1868 and 1874.
- ↑ Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857.
- ↑ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
- ↑ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.
- ↑ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
- ↑ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
Elections
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References
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
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