Naas_(Parliament_of_Ireland_constituency)

Naas (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Naas (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Naas was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801. The Parliament of Ireland merged with the Parliament of Great Britain to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. Thereafter Naas was represented by the Members for Kildare.

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Members of Parliament

  • 1559–1560 John Sherlock and Henry Draycott[1]
  • 1585 James Sherlock and Walter Lewes[2]
  • 1613–1615 Christopher Sherlock and William Lattin[2]
  • 1634–1635 Christopher Sherlock and William Archbold[2]
  • 1639–1642 Christopher Sherlock (expelled for non-attendance) and Nicholas Sutton (expelled for rebellion)[3]
  • 1642–1649 Dr Dudley Loftus[2]
  • 1661–1662 George Carr[2] and Sir John Hoey[1]

1689–1801

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 619.
  2. [2]
    McGrath, Brid (30 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via tara.tcd.ie.
  3. [3]
    Griffiths, George (30 May 1890). "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office – via Internet Archive.
  4. [4]
    from 1776 Hon. John Bourke
  5. [5]
    from 1785 John Bourke, Lord Naas
  6. [6]
    from 1792 John Bourke, Lord Naas
  7. [7]
    from 1794 Sir James Bond, 1st Bt
  8. [8]
    from 1799 Sir John Macartney, 1st Bt

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