Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Pre-1801 Irish constituency
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Baltimore was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.
| Baltimore | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Cork |
| Borough | Baltimore |
| 1614–1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Borough
This constituency was a parliamentary borough based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.
Potwalloper
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801. A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or wallop, a cauldron, or pot. The electors for Baltimore were tenants at will of the Freke family.[1]
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Baltimore was represented with two members.[2]
Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
Baltimore, Incorporated 25 March 1613.
- 1613–1615
- 1613 Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet
- 1613 Henry Piers
- 1634–1635
- 1634 Lott Peere, absent in England and replaced 1634 by James Travers
- 1634 Edward Skipwith,
- 1639–1641
- 1639 Bryan Jones
- 1639 Henry Knyveton
- 1661–1666
- 1661 Sir Nicholas Purdon
- 1661 Richard Townsend
1689–1801
| Election | First MP | Second MP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 | Daniel O'Donovan | Jeremiah O'Donovan | ||||
| 1692 | Thomas Beecher | Edward Richardson | ||||
| 1703 | Percy Freke | |||||
| 1707 | Edward Riggs | |||||
| 1709 | Francis Langston | |||||
| 1713 | Richard Barry | Michael Beecher | ||||
| 1715 | William Southwell | |||||
| 1721 | Sir Percy Freke, 2nd Bt | |||||
| 1727 | Richard Tonson | |||||
| 1728 | Sir John Freke, 3rd Bt[note 1] | |||||
| 1761 | William Clements | |||||
| 1768 | Sir John Evans-Freke, 1st Bt | |||||
| 1771 | Jocelyn Deane | |||||
| 1777 | William Evans | |||||
| 1781 | James Chatterton | |||||
| 1783 | Viscount Sudley | Richard Longfield | ||||
| 1790 | Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Bt | Richard Grace | ||||
| 1798 | George Evans-Freke | |||||
| 1801 | Disenfranchised | |||||