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County Kildare is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two
MPs to the
United Kingdom House of Commons from 1801 to 1885.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of
County Kildare .
Members of Parliament
Date
First member
First party
Second member
Second party
1801, 1 January
Maurice Keatinge
John La Touche
Whig
1802, 20 July
Lord Robert FitzGerald
Whig
Robert La Touche
1806, 21 November
Whig
[1]
1807, 21 May
Lord Henry FitzGerald
[2]
Whig
1814, 23 March
Lord William FitzGerald
Whig
[3]
1830, 18 August
Richard More O'Ferrall
[4]
Whig
[3]
[5]
1831, 9 May
Sir Josiah Hort, Bt
Whig
[3]
1832, 21 December
Edward Ruthven
[6]
Repeal Association
[3]
[7]
1837, 11 August
Robert Archbold
Whig
[3]
[8]
1847, 18 August
Charles FitzGerald
Whig
[9]
[10]
[11]
Richard Bourke
Conservative
[7]
[9]
[10]
[11]
1852, 13 March
William H. F. Cogan
Radical
[12]
[13]
1852, 26 July
David O'Connor Henchy
Ind. Irish
[7]
Ind. Irish
[7]
1857, 7 April
Whig
[14]
Radical
[12]
[13]
1859, 19 May
Richard More O'Ferrall
[15]
Whig
1859, 6 June
Liberal
Liberal
1865, 19 July
Lord Otho FitzGerald
[16]
Liberal
1874, 12 February
Charles Henry Meldon
[17]
Home Rule League
1880, 5 April
James Leahy
[18]
Home Rule League
1882
Irish Parliamentary
Irish Parliamentary
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
O'Ferrall was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Bourke was appointed
Chief Secretary for Ireland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s
FitzGerald was appointed
Treasurer of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Fitzgerald was appointed
Comptroller of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
References
^ Salmon, Philip.
"LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844), of Harristown, co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 .
^ Resigned, 1813
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The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 229–230. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
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^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury .
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Churton, Edward (1838).
The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . p. 169. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via
Google Books .
^ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
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^ Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1837).
The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc . p. 130. Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via
Google Books .
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"County of Kildare" . Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent . 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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The Protestant Elector . p. 197. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
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"General Election" . London Evening Standard . 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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"Ireland" . London Evening Standard . 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018 .
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"The Evening Freeman" . 4 March 1852. pp. 2–3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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"Defeat of the Ministry" . Wexford Independent . 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
^ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed
Treasurer of the Household . Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed
Comptroller of the Household .
^ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
^ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
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"Co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 .
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"The General Election" .
Freeman's Journal . 7 February 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .