Ardee (Parliament of Ireland constituency)




















Ardee
Former Borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created 1378 (1378)
Abolished 1801
Replaced by Disenfranchised

Ardee (also known as Ardee Borough) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1378 to 1801.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Electoral system and electorate


  • 3 Members of Parliament


    • 3.1 1689–1801


    • 3.2 Notes




  • 4 References


  • 5 Bibliography





History


Ardee in County Louth was enfranchised as a borough constituency in 1378. In 1665 the Lord Lieutenant (James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde) wrote to the Portreeve of Ardee recommending Sir Robert Byron, as Burgess in Parliament for Ardee, in the room of Captain John Chambers, "removed" and Colonel Brent Moore, in the "stead of Lieutenant John Ruxton, removed". In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Ardee was represented by two members.[1] It continued to send two Members of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons until the Parliament of Ireland was merged into the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. The constituency was disenfranchised on 31 December 1800.


The borough was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as part of the county constituency of Louth.



Electoral system and electorate


The parliamentary representatives of the borough were elected using the bloc vote for two-member elections and first past the post for single-member by-elections.


A summary of the borough electorate was included in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837. The electorate consisted of the members of the Borough Corporation (the local Council) and the freemen. All of the classes of electors qualified because of co-option by all or part of the existing ones, so this was a constituency with an oligarchic constitution rather than a democratic one.



Members of Parliament



  • 1559-1559 ?

  • 1568–1571 ?

  • 1585–1586 Robert Barnewall and ?[citation needed]

  • 1613–1615 ?

  • 1634–1635 ?

  • 1639–1643 Henry Moore

  • 1665–1666 Erasmus Smith;[2] Sir Richard Stephens

  • 1661–1666 John Chambers[citation needed] and John Ruxton[citation needed]; replaced by (1665) Sir Robert Byron[citation needed] vice Chambers and Brent Moore[citation needed] vice Ruxton (expelled)



1689–1801


















































































































































Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament


Hugh Gernon



John Babe

1692


Henry Tichborne



James Tisdall

1695


Brabazon Moore

1703


Robert Chambre

1713


Michael Tisdall

1715


William Moore

1727


Robert Parkinson



John Donnellan

1741


Tichborne Aston

1748


William Ruxton

1751


John Ruxton

1761


Charles Ruxton

1768


George Lowther

1776


Francis McNamara



Peter Metge

1783


John Ruxton



Charles Ruxton

1785


William Ruxton

1790


William Parkinson Ruxton



John Wolfe [note 1]

1798


Charles Ruxton



William Ruxton

1799


William Parkinson Ruxton


1801

Disenfranchised


Notes





  1. ^ Styled as The Honourable from 1795




References





  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 502


  2. ^ Beavan, Alfred P. (1908). Chronological list of aldermen: 1651–1700. The Aldermen of the City of London: Temp. Henry III – 1912. pp. 75–119. Retrieved 2011-11-14..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




Bibliography




  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.

  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.









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