Belturbet (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Belturbet
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created 1614 (1614)
Abolished 1800
Replaced by Disenfranchised

Belturbet was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Belturbet was represented with two members.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1614–1801

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Sir Edward Tyrrell, 1st Bt Philip Tuite
1692 Francis Butler John Warburton
1703 Richard Tighe Thomas Taylor [note 1]
1713 Theophilus Butler Brinsley Butler
1715 Charles Delafaye
1725 Hon. Humphrey Butler
1727 Thomas Butler
1736 Robert Butler
1755 John Cramer
1761 John Butler [note 2]
1761 John Cramer [note 3]
1763 Edward Tighe
1768 George Glover
1771 Robert Birch
1776 Charles Francis Sheridan
1783 Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt David La Touche
1790 John McClintock Maurice Copinger
1798 Charles King Thomas Townsend
1800 Blayney Townley Balfour
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ↑ Created a baronet in 1704
  2. ↑ Also elected for Down in 1715, for which he chose to sit
  3. ↑ Changed surname to Croghill in 1775

References

  1. ↑ O'Hart (2007), p. 501
  2. ↑ Terry Clavin, ‘Borlase, Sir John (c.1576–1648)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006

Bibliography

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