Wicklow (UK Parliament constituency)

Wicklow
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Replaced by	East Wicklow and West Wicklow

Wicklow was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1801 to 1885 it returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

At the 1885 general election, County Wicklow was divided into two parliamentary divisions: East Wicklow and West Wicklow.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Wicklow.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		William Hoare Hume			vacant until the by-election held in Feb 1801
Feb 1801					George Ponsonby
1806					William Tighe
Feb 1816		Hon. Granville Proby	Whig
Apr 1816					George Ponsonby
Aug 1817					William Parnell-Hayes
1821					James Grattan	Liberal
Jul 1829		Sir Ralph Howard, Bt	Liberal
1841					William Acton	Conservative
1847		Viscount Milton	Liberal
Apr 1848					Sir Ralph Howard, Bt	Liberal
1852					William Wentworth FitzWilliam Hume	Conservative
Feb 1858		Lord Proby	Liberal
Nov 1868		Hon. Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam	Liberal
1874		William Richard O'Byrne	Home Rule League
1880		William Joseph Corbet	Home Rule League		James Carlile McCoan	Home Rule League
1885	Constituency divided: see East Wicklow and West Wicklow

Elections

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References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
• 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)