Wicklow (UK Parliament constituency)
| Wicklow | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1801–1885 | |
| Replaced by | East Wicklow and West Wicklow |
Wicklow was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
At the 1885 general election, County Wicklow was divided into two parliamentary divisions: East Wicklow and West Wicklow.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Wicklow.
Members of Parliament
| Year | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | William Hoare Hume | vacant until the by-election held in Jan 1801 | ||||
| Jan 1801 | George Ponsonby | Whig | ||||
| 1806 | William Tighe | |||||
| Feb 1816 | Hon. Granville Proby | Whig | ||||
| Apr 1816 | George Ponsonby | Whig | ||||
| Aug 1817 | William Parnell-Hayes | |||||
| 1821 | James Grattan | Liberal | ||||
| Jul 1829 | Sir Ralph Howard, Bt | Liberal | ||||
| 1841 | William Acton | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | Viscount Milton | Liberal | ||||
| Apr 1848 | Sir Ralph Howard, Bt | Liberal | ||||
| 1852 | William Wentworth FitzWilliam Hume-Dick | Conservative | ||||
| Feb 1858 | Lord Proby | Liberal | ||||
| Nov 1868 | Hon. Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam | Liberal | ||||
| 1874 | William Richard O'Byrne | Home Rule League | ||||
| 1880 | William Joseph Corbet | Home Rule League | James Carlile McCoan | Home Rule League | ||
| 1885 | Constituency divided: see East Wicklow and West Wicklow | |||||
Elections
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References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
- 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)
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