County Wexford (UK Parliament constituency)

For other similarly named constituencies, see Wexford (constituency).

Wexford County
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Wexford and South Wexford

Wexford County was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Wexford, except for the Parliamentary boroughs of New Ross and Wexford Borough.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		Viscount Loftus			Abel Ram
1806, 27 May		Caesar Colclough
1806, 17 November		John Colclough			Robert Shapland Carew
1807, 1 June		Abel Ram			William Congreve Alcock
1812, 10 October		Robert Carew	Whig		Sir Frederick Flood, Bt
1818, 21 July					Caesar Colclough
1820, 21 March					Viscount Stopford
1830, 19 August		Arthur Chichester			Viscount Valentia
1831, 18 May					Henry Lambert
1831, 27 September		Robert Carew	Whig
1834, 3 July		Cadwallader Waddy
1835, 27 January		John Maher			James Power
1841, 16 Jul		Villiers Francis Hatton
1847, 10 August		James Fagan			Hamilton Knox Grogan Morgan
1852, 26 July		Patrick McMahon			John George
1857, 10 March					John Hatchell
1859, 16 May					John George
1865, 24 Jul		Sir James Power, Bt.
1866, 15 November					Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh
1868, 24 November		John Talbot Power			Matthew Peter D'Arcy
1874, 23 February		Sir George Bowyer, Bt.			Keyes O'Clery
1880, 14 April		John Barry			Garrett Michael Byrne
1883, 15 June					John Francis Small
1885	Constituency divided: see North Wexford and South Wexford

Elections

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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)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)