Wexford Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

Wexford Borough
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One

Wexford Borough was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (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 Wexford in County Wexford.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801-01-01	Francis Leigh		1801: Co-opted; Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	1801-02-20	Ponsonby Tottenham
	1802-07-09	Richard Nevill ^1	Tory
	1806-11-10	Sir Robert Wigram, Bt	Tory
	1807-05-21	Richard Nevill ^1	Tory	Resigned
	1810-03-03	Captain Peter Parker R.N.	Tory	Resigned
	1811-07-01	Richard Nevill ^1	Tory	Resigned
	1813-03-03	Vice Admiral John Fish	Tory	Resigned
	1814-08-09	Richard Nevill ^1	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Ulster)
	1819-03-01	Captain Henry Evans R.N.	Tory
	1820-03-20	William Wigram	Tory
	1826-06-19	Rear Admiral Henry Evans	Tory	Resigned
	1829-06-03	Robert Wigram ^2	Tory	Unseated on petition
	1830-03-15 ^3	Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, Bt	Tory	Declared duly elected
	1830-08-07	William Wigram	Tory	Unseated on petition
	1831-02-21 ^3	Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, Bt	Ultra-Tory	Declared duly elected
	1831-05-06	Charles Arthur Walker	Whig	Re-elected as a candidate of the Repeal Association
	1832-12-14		Repeal Association	Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
	1835-01-12		Liberal
	1841-07-12	Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bt	Liberal
	1847-08-04	John Thomas Devereux	Repeal Association	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1852-07-09		Liberal	Became a member of the Independent Irish Party
	1852 ^4		Independent Irish	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1857-03-20		Liberal
	1859-05-03	John Edward Redmond	Liberal	The grand uncle of John Redmond (1856–1918)
	1865-07-17	Richard Joseph Devereux	Liberal	Resigned
	1872-04-26	William Archer Redmond	Home Rule League	The grandfather of William Redmond (1886–1932). Died 1880.
	1880-11-24	Timothy Michael Healy	Home Rule League	Joined new organisation
	1882 ^4		Irish Parliamentary	Resigned to contest Monaghan
	1883-07-17	Willie Redmond	Irish Parliamentary	Last MP for the constituency
1885-11-18		Constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ¹ Stooks Smith names the MP 1802-1806 as Richard Neville Furness, 1807-1810 as Richard Neville, 1811-1813 as Robert Neville and 1814-1819 as Richard Neville. Walker names the MP for all these terms as Richard Nevill.
• ² From 1832 known as Robert Fitzwygram.
• ³ Not an election - date when the previous member was unseated and the petitioner was declared duly elected.
• ⁴ Not an election - change of party allegiance.

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 "W" (part 3)