Coleraine (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Coordinates: 55°07′55″N 6°40′05″W / 55.132°N 6.668°W

Coleraine
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Coleraine

Coleraine 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, Coleraine was not represented.^[1] The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.

Members of Parliament

• 1613 Sir Barnabas O'Brien, later Earl of Thomond
• Henry Conyngham
• 1661–1668 Randal Beresford

1692–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689		Coleraine was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692		John Davys			William Leslie
1695		Sir Arthur Langford, 2nd Bt			Samuel Jackson
September 1703					Richard Gorges [note 1]
1703					Thomas Pearce
1713		Frederick Hamilton	Whig		George Lowther	Whig
1715					Sir Marcus Beresford, 4th Bt	Whig
1721					Francis Burton
1727		Henry Carey			Thomas Jackson
1751					Richard Jackson
1757		Hamilton Gorges
1761		Lord La Poer
1763		George Paul Monck
1768		John Beresford [note 2]
August 1768		Theophilus Jones
1776		Hon. Richard Annesley
1783		John Beresford [note 3]
October 1783		Arthur Wolfe
1789		George Jackson			John Beresford [note 4]
1791					George FitzGerald Hill
1795					William Domville Stanley Monck
1796		John Staunton Rochfort
January 1798		Earl of Tyrone [note 5]			John Beresford [note 6]
1798		John Beresford			Walter Jones
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Coleraine

Notes

1. Also elected for Bandonbridge in 1703, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Waterford County in 1768, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Waterford County in 1783, for which he chose to sit
4. Also elected for Waterford County in 1789, for which he chose to sit
5. Also elected for Londonderry County in 1798, for which he chose to sit
6. Also elected for Waterford County in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 501

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.