Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Swords | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Dublin |
Borough | Swords |
?–1801 | |
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
Members of Parliament
- 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor
- 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)
- 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson )
- 1639–1642 John Taylor and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
- 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson
- 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne
1689–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Francis Barnwall | Robert Russell | ||||
1692 | Richard Forster | John Reading | ||||
1695 | Thomas Ashe | |||||
1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | James Peppard | |||
1713 | Plunket Plunket | |||||
1715 | Richard Molesworth | |||||
1727 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | Edward Bolton | ||||
1759 | Thomas Cobbe | |||||
1761 | Hamilton Gorges | |||||
1768 | John Hatch | John Damer | ||||
1776 | Thomas Cobbe | Charles King | ||||
1783 | Charles Cobbe | John Hatch | ||||
1790 | John Claudius Beresford | Eyre Massey | ||||
January 1798 | Francis Synge | Charles Cobbe | ||||
1798 | Marcus Beresford | |||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |