Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)

Kildare
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Kildare and South Kildare

A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare.

Members of Parliament

Date			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1801, 1 January	Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keatinge		John La Touche	Whig
		1802, 20 July	Lord Robert Stephen FitzGerald	Whig	Robert La Touche
		1806, 21 November				Whig
		1807, 21 May	Lord Henry FitzGerald [1]	Whig
		1813, 23 March	Lord William Charles O'Brien FitzGerald	Whig
		1830, 18 August			Richard More O'Ferrall [2]	Whig
		1831, 9 May	Sir Josiah William Hort, Bt	Whig
		1832, 21 December	Edward Ruthven [3]	Repeal Association
		1837, 11 August	Robert Archbold	Whig
		1847, 18 August	Marquess of Kildare	Whig	Richard Southwell Bourke (became Lord Naas)	Conservative
		1852, 13 March			William Henry Ford Cogan [4]	Whig
		1852, 26 July	David O'Connor Henchy [5]	Whig
		1859, 19 May	Richard More O'Ferrall [6]	Whig
		1859, 6 June		Liberal		Liberal
		1865, 19 July	Lord Otho Augustus FitzGerald [7]	Liberal
		1874, 12 February	Charles Henry Meldon [8]	Home Rule League
		1880, 5 April			James Leahy [9]	Home Rule League
		1882		Irish Parliamentary		Irish Parliamentary

1. Resigned, 1813
2. Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
3. Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
4. Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857 and 1859. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election. Re-elected as a Liberal in 1865, 1868 and 1874.
5. Pledged support to the formation of an Independent Irish Opposition, at the 1852 election. Re-elected as a Whig in 1857.
6. Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
7. Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household. Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household.
8. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
9. A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.

Elections

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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 "K" (part 1)