Armagh Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Armagh Borough
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1613
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Armagh City

Armagh Borough (also known as Armagh City) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1613 to 1800.

History

This constituency was the borough of Armagh in County Armagh.

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland the borough was not represented in the Protectorate Parliaments (1654-1659), except as a small part of the Down, Antrim and Armagh county constituency.

After the restoration, in 1660, the Parliament of Ireland was revived with the borough again represented. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Armagh Borough was represented with two members.^[1]

Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained one parliamentary seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Parliaments of Charles I

• 1634 George Radcliffe

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Francis Stafford			Constantine O'Neale
1692		Marmaduke Coghill			Edward Lyndon
1695					Samuel Dopping [note 1]
1713		Epaphroditus Marsh
1715		Silvester Crosse			Charles Bourchier
1716					John Eyre
1727		Edward Knatchbull			Ambrose Philips
1749					Philip Bragg
1759					Marquess of Tavistock
May 1761		Robert Cuninghame			Hon. John Ponsonby [note 2]
1761					Hon. Barry Maxwell
1768		George Macartney			Philip Tisdall [note 3]
1769					Charles O'Hara
1776		Philip Tisdall			Henry Meredyth
1777		George Rawson
January 1790					Henry Duquerry
May 1790					Robert Hobart [note 4]
1796		Sackville Hamilton
1798		Hon. Thomas Pelham			Patrick Duigenan
1799		Gerard Lake
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Armagh City

Notes

1. Also elected for Dublin University in 1715, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Kilkenny County in 1761, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Dublin University in 1768, for which he chose to sit
4. Styled as Lord Hobart from 1793

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 500

Bibliography

• 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.