Thomastown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Pre-1801 Irish constituency
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Thomastown was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. Following the Acts of Union 1800 the borough was disenfranchised.
| Thomastown | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Kilkenny |
| Borough | Thomastown |
| 1541–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Members of Parliament
- 1560 Francis Cosby and Henry Colley[1]
- 1585 Walter Sherlock and Robert Porter[1]
- 1613–1615 Robert Porter and Nicolas Robucke[1]
- 1634–1635 Patrick Sherlock and Jacob Walsh[1]
- 1639–1649 Seafoule Gibson[1] and Michael Wandesford[2]
- 1661–1666 Robert Shapcote (sat for Wicklow Borough and replaced 1661 by John Brett) and Thomas Burrell[3]
1689–1801
| Election | First MP | Second MP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 | Robert Grace, Snr | Robert Grace, Jnr | ||||
| 1692 | William Harrison | John Hayes | ||||
| 1695 | Christopher Hewetson | Arthur Bushe | ||||
| 1703 | John Beauchamp | |||||
| 1713 | Amyas Bushe | |||||
| 1715 | William Flower | John Cuffe | ||||
| 1715 | William Despard | |||||
| 1721 | Richard Bettesworth | |||||
| 1727 | Luke Gardiner | Nicholas Aylward | ||||
| 1755 | Redmond Morres | |||||
| 1757 | Hon. Joseph Leeson | |||||
| 1761 | Alexander McAuley | Thomas Eyre | ||||
| 1767 | Lord Frederick Campbell | |||||
| 1768 | James Agar | Thomas Maunsell | ||||
| 1769 | George Dunbar | |||||
| 1776 | Robert Forde | Edward Bellingham Swan | ||||
| 1783 | George Roth | Patrick Welch | ||||
| 1786 | George Bunbury | |||||
| 1790 | George Burdett | |||||
| 1798 | George Dunbar | James Kearney | ||||
| March 1800 | Hon. Charles William Stewart | |||||
| April 1800 | William Gardiner | |||||
| May 1800 | John Francis Cradock | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||