Lisburn (UK Parliament constituency)

Lisburn
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	South Antrim

Lisburn was a 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 Lisburn in County Antrim.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	George Hatton	Tory	1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 12	Earl of Yarmouth	Tory
	1812, October 20	Lord Henry Seymour Moore	Tory
	1818, June 29	John Leslie Foster	Tory	Also returned by and elected to sit for Armagh City
	1819, February 22	Horace Beauchamp Seymour	Tory
	1826, June 16	Henry Meynell	Tory	Re-elected as a Conservative candidate
	1832, December 15		Conservative ^1
	1847, August 5	Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour	Peelite	Died 23 November 1851
	1852, January 5	Sir James Emerson Tennent	Conservative	Resigned
	1852, December 11	Roger Johnson Smyth ^2	Liberal ^3	Died 19 September 1853
	1853, October 14	Jonathan Joseph Richardson ^4	Liberal ^3	Re-elected as a Conservative candidate
	1859, May 4		Conservative	Resigned
	1863, February 23	John Doherty Barbour	Liberal	Unseated on petition - new writ issued
	1863, June 23	Edward Wingfield Verner	Conservative	Resigned
	1873, February 19	Sir Richard Wallace, 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 Smyth was classified by Walker as a Liberal. Stenton however describes him as "a moderate Conservative, in favour of free trade ...".
• ³ 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.
• ⁴ Walker suggests J. J. Richardson (elected 1853), was a different person from Jonathan Richardson (elected as a Liberal in 1857 and as a Conservative in 1859). Stenton, whose entry for the MP is mostly based upon the 1862 edition of Dod's Parliamentary Companion, states that Jonathan Richardson was "First returned for Lisburn Oct. 1853, and sat until he accepted Chiltern Hundreds Feb. 1863".

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)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 3)