Coleraine (UK Parliament constituency)

Coleraine
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	North Londonderry

Coleraine is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Coleraine in County Londonderry.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Walter Jones	Tory	1801: Co-opted
	1806, November 13	Sir George Fitzgerald Hill, Bt	Tory	Also returned by and elected to sit for Londonderry City
	1807, February 4	Walter Jones	Tory	Resigned
	1809, June 26	John Poer Beresford	Tory
	1812, October 17	Lord George Thomas Beresford	Tory	Resigned
	1814, June 10	Sir John Poer Beresford, Bt	Tory	Resigned
	1823, February 22	Sir John William Head Brydges	Tory	Unseated on petition 4 August 1831
	1831, August 4	William Taylor Copeland	Whig	Declared duly elected on petition
	1832, December 13	Sir John Poer Beresford, Bt	Conservative ^1	Unseated on petition 27 May 1833
	1833, May 27	William Taylor Copeland	Liberal ^2	Declared duly elected on petition
	1837, August 4	Edward Litton	Conservative	Appointed Master of Chancery in Ireland
	1843, February 18	John Boyd	Conservative	Resigned
	1852, March 22	Rt Hon. Lord Naas	Conservative
	1857, March 30	John Boyd	Conservative	Died 2 January 1862
	1862, January 31	Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bt	Conservative
	1874, February 6	Daniel Taylor	Liberal
	1880, April 3	Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bt	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Supplemental Notes:-

• ¹ Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.
• ² Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

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 "C" (part 5)