Английская Википедия:Dundalk (UK Parliament constituency)

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Dundalk was a parliamentary borough constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, replacing the Dundalk constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Dundalk in County Louth.

History

The constituency was one of the two member borough constituencies in the Parliament of Ireland, which became a single member United Kingdom constituency when the union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

The first member of the United Kingdom House of Commons was to be selected from the area's two MPs in the Irish Parliament, by drawing lots. However both members resigned so the seat could not be filled by co-option and a by-election was necessary. The by-election took place on 28 February 1801. The Right Honourable Isaac Corry, a quite prominent political figure, was elected the first United Kingdom MP for Dundalk.

Corry was associated with what came to be called the Tory Party after the death of William Pitt the younger in 1806. Up until the extension of the franchise in 1832, the borough was strongly Tory in representation. The fact that no Tory or Conservative was elected after 1832 may say something about the unrepresentative nature of the old franchise.

Dundalk had a population of 9,256 in 1821. Walker records that the electorate in 1831 numbered 36. The population in 1831 had increased to 10,750. All the elections in the borough between 1801 and 1831 were unopposed returns.

The 1832 general election was conducted on a new franchise. The registered electorate, under the new system, numbered 318. At the borough's first contested election of the century 295 people voted (Liberal 167, Conservative 128).

From 1832 to 1885 the constituency returned members who were Liberals or who belonged to a series of Irish-based groups (the Repeal Association, the Independent Irish Party and the Home Rule League). The Liberals elected in Dundalk tended to have nationalist leanings.

The last MP for the constituency was the prominent Liberal lawyer-politician, Charles Russell. An Irish born Catholic, Russell was to be the lead Counsel for Charles Stewart Parnell during the inquiry into allegations which had appeared in The Times. In March 1887 it had been suggested that Parnell was complicit in the murders of the Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland, T.H. Burke. Letters were produced to support the allegations. As a result of Russell's masterly cross-examination of Richard Pigott, the forger of the letters, the Commission of Enquiry vindicated Parnell.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, 1 January	seat vacant	...	Both members in the Irish Parliament had resigned
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1801, 28 February	Rt Hon. Isaac Corry	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1802, 15 July	Richard Archdall	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1806, 22 November	John Metge	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1807, 20 January	Josias Du Pré Porcher	Tory	1807, May: Also returned by and elected to sit for Old Sarum
	1807, 4 August	Patrick Bruce		Resigned
	1808, 27 July	Thomas Hughan		Died
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1812, 21 February	Frederick Trench	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1812, 26 October	John Metge	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1813, 2 January	Lyndon Evelyn	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1818, 29 June	Gerrard Callaghan	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1820, 24 March	John Metge	Tory	Resigned (appointed Escheator of Munster)
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1820, 29 June	George Hartopp	Tory	Died
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1824, 5 May	Sir Robert Inglis, Bt	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1826, 12 June	Charles Barclay	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1830, 14 August	Hon. John Hobart Caradoc	Whig
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1831, 13 May	James Edward Gordon	Tory
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1832, 19 December	William O'Reilly	Whig
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1835, 14 January	William Sharman Crawford	Radical
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1837, 2 August	Thomas Nicholas Redington	Whig	Appointed Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1846, 31 July	Daniel O'Connell Jnr	Repeal Association
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1847, 6 August	Charles MacTavish	Repeal Association	Unseated on petition
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1848, 20 March	William Torrens McCullagh	Whig	Declared duly elected, on petition
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1852, 15 July	Sir George Bowyer, Bt	Independent Irish Party
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1857, 2 April		Whig
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1859, 2 May		Liberal
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1868, 21 November	Philip Callan	Liberal	Re-elected as a Home Rule League candidate
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1874, 5 February		Home Rule League	Also returned by County Louth, but elects to sit here
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1880, 2 April	Charles Russell	Liberal	Last MP from the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1840s

Redington resigned after being appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland, causing a by-election.

Upon petition, MacTavish was unseated and McCullagh was declared elected on 20 March 1848

References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
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