Armagh Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Armagh Borough (also known as Armagh City) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1613 to 1800.

History

This constituency was the borough of Armagh in County Armagh.

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland the borough was not represented in the Protectorate Parliaments (1654-1659), except as a small part of the Down, Antrim and Armagh county constituency.

After the restoration, in 1660, the Parliament of Ireland was revived with the borough again represented. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Armagh Borough was represented with two members.

Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained one parliamentary seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Parliaments of Charles I

• 1634 George Radcliffe

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Francis Stafford			Constantine O'Neale
1692		Marmaduke Coghill			Edward Lyndon
1695					Samuel Dopping
1713		Epaphroditus Marsh
1715		Silvester Crosse			Charles Bourchier
1716					John Eyre
1727		Edward Knatchbull			Ambrose Philips
1749					Philip Bragg
1759					Marquess of Tavistock
May 1761		Robert Cuninghame			Hon. John Ponsonby
1761					Hon. Barry Maxwell
1768		George Macartney			Philip Tisdall
1769					Charles O'Hara
1776		Philip Tisdall			Henry Meredyth
1777		George Rawson
January 1790					Henry Duquery
May 1790					Robert Hobart
1796		Sackville Hamilton
1798		Hon. Thomas Pelham			Patrick Duigenan
1799		Gerard Lake
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Armagh City

Bibliography

• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons() cites:

• O'Hart (2007), p. 500