Wexford_Borough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Wexford Borough (UK Parliament constituency)

UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885

For other similarly named constituencies, see Wexford (disambiguation).

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.

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Wexford Borough
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	County Wexford
Borough	Wexford
1801–1885
Seats	1
Created from	Wexford Borough (IHC)
Replaced by	South Wexford

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Wexford in County Wexford.

Members of Parliament

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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^[1]
	1807-05-21	Richard Nevill ¹	Tory	Resigned (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds)
	1810-03-03	Captain Peter Parker R.N.	Tory	Resigned (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds)
	1811-07-01	Richard Nevill ¹	Tory	Resigned (appointed Steward of the Manor of East Hendred)
	1813-03-03	Vice Admiral John Fish	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
	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^[1]
	1826-06-19	Rear Admiral Henry Evans	Tory	Resigned (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds)
	1829-06-03	Robert Wigram ²	Tory^[1]	Unseated on petition
	1830-03-15 ³	Sir Edward Dering, Bt	Tory^[1]	Declared duly elected
	1830-08-07	William Wigram	Tory^[1]	Unseated on petition
	1831-02-21 ³	Sir Edward 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	Charles Arthur Walker	Repeal Association^[2]	Re-elected as a candidate of a Liberal/Repealer pact
	1841-07-12	Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bt	Whig^[1]^[3]
	1847-08-04	John Thomas Devereux	Repeal Association^[2]	Re-elected as an Independent Irish candidate
	1852-07-09		Ind. Irish^[2]	Re-elected as a Liberal candidate
	1857-03-20		Whig
	1859-05-03	John Edward Redmond	Liberal^[2]	The grand uncle of John Redmond (1856–1918)
	1865-07-17	Richard Joseph Devereux	Liberal^[2]	Resigned
	1872-04-26	William Archer Redmond	Home Rule League^[2]	The grandfather of William Redmond (1886–1932). Died 1880.
	1880-11-24	Tim Healy	Home Rule League^[2]	Joined new organisation
	1882 ⁴	Tim Healy	Irish Parliamentary^[2]	Resigned to contest Monaghan
	1883-07-17	Willie Redmond	Irish Parliamentary^[2]	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.