Tuam was a borough constituency which elected two MPs representing Tuam, County Galway, to the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was incorporated by a 1614 charter of James I. It originally belonged to the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam, before later passing into the control of the Clanmorris branch of the Bingham family. It was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800.[1]
| Tuam | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Galway |
| Borough | Tuam |
| 1614–1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Members of Parliament
edit| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1613 | Sir Thomas Rotherham[2] | Damien Pecke[2] | |||||
| 1634 | |||||||
| 1639 | Henry Bringhurst[2] | ||||||
| 1661 | Sir Thomas Bramhall, Bt Sat for Dungannon |
Geffrey Browne (mis-elected)[3] |
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| 1661 | Robert Ormesby - died | Humphrey Abdy[3] | |||||
| 1665 | Sir Richard Lane, Bt | ||||||
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | James Lally | William Bourk | |||||
| 1692 | Sir Francis Brewster | Gilbert Ormsby | |||||
| 1703 | Agmondisham Vesey | ||||||
| 1713 | Charles Stuart | ||||||
| 1715 | William Vesey | ||||||
| 1739 | John Bingham | ||||||
| 1750 | Henry Bingham | ||||||
| 1761 | Henry Bingham | ||||||
| 1768 | William Hull[4] | Richard Power | |||||
| 1772 | Hugh Carleton | ||||||
| 1776 | James Browne | Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Bt | |||||
| October 1783 | James Cuffe | David La Touche | |||||
| 1783 | Robert Day | Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Bt | |||||
| 1790 | Thomas Lighton[5] | Jonah Barrington | Irish Patriot | ||||
| 1798 | John Bingham | Walter Aglionby Yelverton | |||||
| 1800 | George Vesey | ||||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | ||||||
Notes
edit- ^ "Tuam". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 617.
- ^ from 1773 William Tonson
- ^ from 1791 Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt
References
edit- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.