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County Down (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Summary

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Field	Value
name	County Down
type	county
county	County Down
region	Ireland
parliament	ihc
abolished	1801
next	Down (UKHC)
seats	2

County Down was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Down was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

Election	First MP	Second MP
1585		Sir Nicholas Bagnoll of The Newry, County Down
1613		Sir James Hamilton of Bangor and Killileagh, County Down
1634		Sir Hugh Montgomery of Newtown, County Down
1639		Sir Edward Trevor of Rosetrevor, County Down
1661		Marcus Trevor of Rosetrevor, County Down
1662 by-electionCaused by the creation of Trevor as Viscount Dungannon		Vere Essex Cromwell
1665 by-electionCaused by death of Hill in April 1663		Marcus Trevor of Rosetrevor, County DownA son of the man elected in 1661 - see Edward M. Furgol, ‘Trevor, Marcus , first Viscount Dungannon (1618–1670)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 15 May 2014
1689		Murtagh Magennis of Greencastle, County Down
1692		James Hamilton
1695		James Hamilton
1695 by-electionCaused by the death of Rawdon		Nicholas Price
1703		John Hawkins Magill
1713		Michael Ward
1715		Trevor Hill
1717 by-electionCaused by Hill's creation as Viscount Hillsborough		Sir John Rawdon, 3rd Bt
1724 by-electionCaused by the death of Rawdon		Robert Hawkins Magill
1727		Arthur HillChanged surname to Hill-Trevor in 1759
1745 by-electionCaused by the death of Hawkins-Magill		Bernard Ward
1761
1766 by-electionCaused by Hill-Trevor's creation as Viscount Dungannon		Henry Seymour-Conway
1768		Roger Hall
1771 by-electionCaused by Ward's creation as Baron Bangor		Robert Stewart
1776		Arthur Hill, Viscount KilwarlinStyled as Earl of Hillsborough from 1789
1783		Hon. Edward Ward
1790		Hon. Robert StewartStyled as Viscount Castlereagh from 1796
1794 by-electionCaused by Hill's succession as second Marquess of Downshire		Francis Savage
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Down

Notes

Elections

Elections in the 1790s

At the 1797 general election Francis Savage and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh were elected unopposed.

At the by-election in 1793 following Hill's succession as second Marquess of Downshire, Francis Savage was returned unopposed.

Election in the 1780s

Elections in the 1770s

At the 1776 general election Arthur Hill, Viscount Kilwarlin and Robert Stewart were elected unopposed.

At the by-election in 1771 following Ward's creation as Baron Bangor

Elections in the 1760s

At the 1768 general election Roger Hall and Bernard Ward were elected unopposed.

Election in the 1610s

"In the co. of Down, May-day was the county court day for the election, which the sheriff held at Newry, at which day the sheriff proceeding to the election, moved the freeholders to choose Sir Richard Wingfield and Sir James Hamilton, being recommended to him by the Lord Deputy; but the natives named Sir Arthur Magenisse and Rowland Savage; whereupon all the British freeholders, being 131, cried “Hamilton and Montgomery”, omitting Wingfield; and the Irish, to the number of 101, cried “Magenisse and Savage”. Exception being presently taken to divers of the British for want of freehold, 14 were examined on oath by the sheriff and deposed they were freeholders, and thereupon the sheriff returned Hamilton and Montgomery; to which some of the Irish made objections, which were found partly untrue, and partly frivolous."

References

Bibliography

Peter Jupp, County Down Elections, 1783–1831, Irish Historical Studies 18, no. 70 (1972): 177–206
{{cite book |title = History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, Volume II, Commons, Constituencies and Statutes

References

[https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-records/biographies-of-the-members-of-the-irish-parliament/?search1=&search2=seymour-conway&search3=&submit=Search Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800]
Jupp (1972), p. 183
Jupp (1972), p. 183
Jupp (1972), p. 183 note 19
Jupp (1972), p. 182, note 18
Irish patent rolls of James I; facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's calendar prepared prior to 1830. Author:Great Britain. Commissioners on the Public Records of Ireland.; Irish Manuscripts Commission. Publisher: Dublin, Stationery Off. for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1966. P 397

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