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Sligo Borough
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Sligo
Borough Sligo
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Replaced by Sligo Borough

'Sligo was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Members of Parliament

  • 1613–1615 Henry Andrews and Edward Southworth [1]
  • 1634–1635 Arthur Jones and Edward Southworth [1]
  • 1639–1645 Keane O'Hara and Thomas Radcliffe (expelled) [1]
  • 1661–1666 Sir Henry Tichborne and Samuel Bathurst [2]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Terence MacDonogh James French
1692 Percy Gethin Theophilus Jones
1695 Roger Smith
1703 Samuel Walton
1713 Samuel Burton Owen Wynne
1727 Francis Ormsby
1751 John Wynne
1757 William Ormsby
1761 John Folliott
1762 Robert Scott
1768 John Wynne
1776 Owen Wynne Richard Hely-Hutchinson
October 1783 John Foster
1783 Thomas Dawson
1789 Robert Wynne
May 1790 John Cole, Viscount Cole
1790 Owen Wynne
January 1798 John Cole, Viscount Cole
1798 Owen Wynne
1799 William Wynne
1801 Succeeded by Westminster constituency Sligo Borough

References

  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". hdl: 2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  2. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 632.