County Down (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
{{short description|Pre-1801 Irish constituency}}
{{Distinguish|Downpatrick (Parliament of Ireland constituency)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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{{Infobox UK constituency
| name = County Down
| type = county
| county = County Down
| region = Ireland
| parliament = ihc
| year =
| abolished = 1801
| next = Down (UKHC)
| seats = 2
}}
County Down was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Down was represented with two members.{{sfn|O'Hart|2007|p=501}}
Members of Parliament
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Election | colspan=3|First MP | colspan=3|Second MP |
|---|---|---|
| 1585
| style="background-color: white" | | Sir Nicholas Bagnoll of The Newry, County Down | | style="background-color: white" | | Sir Hugh Magennies of Rathfriland, County Down | | ||
| 1613
| style="background-color: white" | | Sir James Hamilton of Bangor and Killileagh, County Down | | style="background-color: white" | | Sir Hugh Montgomery of Newtown, County Down | | ||
| 1634
| style="background-color: white" | | Sir Hugh Montgomery of Newtown, County Down | | style="background-color: white" | | Sir James Hamilton of Bangor and Killileagh, County Down | | ||
| 1639
| style="background-color: white" | | Sir Edward Trevor of Rosetrevor, County Down | | style="background-color: white" | | Sir James Montgomery of Rosemount, Greyabbey, County Down | | ||
| 1661
| style="background-color: white" | | Marcus Trevor of Rosetrevor, County Down | | rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Arthur Hill of Hillsborough, County Down | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1662 by-electionCaused by the creation of Trevor as Viscount Dungannon
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Vere Essex Cromwell | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1665 by-electionCaused by death of Hill in April 1663
| style="background-color: white" | | Marcus Trevor of Rosetrevor, County DownA son of the man elected in 1661 - see Edward M. Furgol, ‘Trevor, Marcus , first Viscount Dungannon (1618–1670)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27731, accessed 15 May 2014] | | ||
| 1689
| style="background-color: white" | | Murtagh Magennis of Greencastle, County Down | | style="background-color: white" | | Ever Magennis of Castlewellan, County Down | | ||
| 1692
| style="background-color: white" | | |rowspan=2 style="background-color: white" | |rowspan=2| Sir Arthur Rawdon, 2nd Bt |rowspan=2| | ||
| 1695
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | |rowspan=2|James Hamilton | rowspan=2| | |
| 1695 by-electionCaused by the death of Rawdon
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="3" | Nicholas Price | rowspan="3" | | ||
| 1703
| style="background-color: white" | | | ||
| 1713
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="4" | Michael Ward | rowspan="4" | | ||
| 1715
| style="background-color: white" | | | ||
| 1717 by-electionCaused by Hill's creation as Viscount Hillsborough
| style="background-color: white" | | | ||
| 1724 by-electionCaused by the death of Rawdon
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Robert Hawkins Magill | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1727
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="3" | Arthur HillChanged surname to Hill-Trevor in 1759 | rowspan="3" | | ||
| 1745 by-electionCaused by the death of Hawkins-Magill
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="4" | Bernard Ward | rowspan="4" | | ||
| 1761 | ||
| 1766 by-electionCaused by Hill-Trevor's creation as Viscount Dungannon
| style="background-color: white" | | Henry Seymour-Conway[https://www.ancestryireland.com/family-records/biographies-of-the-members-of-the-irish-parliament/?search1=&search2=seymour-conway&search3=&submit=Search Biographies of Members of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800] | | ||
| 1768
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Roger Hall | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1771 by-electionCaused by Ward's creation as Baron Bangor
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Robert Stewart | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1776
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="3" | Arthur Hill, Viscount KilwarlinStyled as Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 | rowspan="3" | | ||
| 1783
| style="background-color: white" | | | ||
| 1790
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" | | rowspan="2" | Hon. Robert StewartStyled as Viscount Castlereagh from 1796 | rowspan="2" | | ||
| 1794 by-electionCaused by Hill's succession as second Marquess of Downshire
| style="background-color: white" | | | ||
| 1801
| | colspan="5" | Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Down |
=Notes=
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Elections
=Elections in the 1790s=
At the 1797 general election Francis Savage and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh were elected unopposed.Jupp (1972), p. 183
At the by-election in 1793 following Hill's succession as second Marquess of Downshire, Francis Savage was returned unopposed.Jupp (1972), p. 183
{{Election box begin | title= General Election 1790: DownJupp (1972), p. 183 note 19
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Arthur Hill, Earl of Hillsborough |votes = 3534
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|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Hon. Robert Stewart
|votes = 3114
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Hon. Edward Ward
|votes = 2958
|percentage =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Captain George Matthews
|votes = 2223
|percentage =
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=Election in the 1780s=
{{Election box begin | title= General Election 1783: DownJupp (1972), p. 182, note 18
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Arthur Hill, Viscount Kilwarlin |votes = 2831
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Hon. Edward Ward
|votes = 2071
|percentage =
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Tories (British political party)
|candidate = Robert Stewart
|votes = 1957
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=Elections in the 1770s=
At the 1776 general election Arthur Hill, Viscount Kilwarlin and Robert Stewart were elected unopposed.{{Sfn|Johnston-Liik|2002|p=95}}
At the by-election in 1771 following Ward's creation as Baron Bangor
=Elections in the 1760s=
At the 1768 general election Roger Hall and Bernard Ward were elected unopposed.{{Sfn|Johnston-Liik|2002|p=95}}
=Election in the 1610s=
{{Election box begin | title= General Election 1613: DownIrish patent rolls of James I; facsimile of the Irish Record Commission's calendar prepared prior to 1830. Author:Great Britain. Commissioners on the Public Records of Ireland.; Irish Manuscripts Commission. Publisher: Dublin, Stationery Off. for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1966. P 397
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Sir James Hamilton
|votes = 131
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|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Sir Hugh Montgomery
|votes = 131
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Sir Arthur Magennis
|votes = 101
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Nonpartisan politician
|candidate = Rowland Savage
|votes = 101
|percentage =
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"In the co. of Down, May-day was the county court day for the election, which the sheriff held at Newry, at which day the sheriff proceeding to the election, moved the freeholders to choose Sir Richard Wingfield and Sir James Hamilton, being recommended to him by the Lord Deputy; but the natives named Sir Arthur Magenisse and Rowland Savage; whereupon all the British freeholders, being 131, cried “Hamilton and Montgomery”, omitting Wingfield; and the Irish, to the number of 101, cried “Magenisse and Savage”. Exception being presently taken to divers of the British for want of freehold, 14 were examined on oath by the sheriff and deposed they were freeholders, and thereupon the sheriff returned Hamilton and Montgomery; to which some of the Irish made objections, which were found partly untrue, and partly frivolous."
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | last = O'Hart | first = John | title = The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland | publisher = Heritage Books | volume = II | isbn = 978-0-7884-1927-0 | date = 2007 }}
- {{Rayment-hc-ie|date=March 2012}}
- Peter Jupp, County Down Elections, 1783–1831, Irish Historical Studies 18, no. 70 (1972): 177–206
- {{cite book |title = History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, Volume II, Commons, Constituencies and Statutes
|last = Johnston-Liik
|first = Edith Mary
|isbn = 1-903688-71-X |publisher = Ulster Historical Foundation
|year = 2002 }}
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