Newry (UK Parliament constituency)

Newry
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1918 (1918)
Replaced by	South Down

Newry was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Newry in County Down.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	John Moore		1801: Co-opted
	1802, July 13	Rt Hon. Isaac Corry	Whig
	1806, November 15	Hon. Francis Needham	Tory	Became the 12th Viscount Kilmorey 1818
	1819, March 6	Hon. Francis Jack Needham	Tory	Styled Viscount Newry 12 January 1822
	1826, June 14	Hon. John Henry Knox	Tory
	1832, December 27	Lord Marcus Hill	Conservative 1
	1835, January 21	Denis Caulfield Brady	Liberal 2
	1837, August 4	John Ellis	Conservative
	1841, July 8	Viscount Newry and Morne	Conservative	Re-elected as a Peelite candidate
	1847, August 2		Peelite	Died 6 May 1851
	1851, May 30	Edmund Gilling Hallewell	Conservative
	1852, July 19	William Kirk	Liberal 2
	1859, May 5	Peter Quinn	Conservative
	1865, July 15	Arthur Charles Innes	Conservative
	1868, November 18	William Kirk	Liberal	Died 20 December 1870
	1871, January 23	Viscount Newry and Morne	Conservative
	1874, February 3	William Whitworth	Liberal
	1880, April 3	Henry Thomson	Conservative
	1885, November 24	Justin Huntly McCarthy	Irish Parliamentary
	1892, July 7	Patrick George Hamilton Carvill	Irish National Federation	Re-elected as an Irish Parliamentary Party candidate
	1900, October 1		Irish Parliamentary
	1906, January 17	John Joseph Mooney	Irish Parliamentary	Last MP for the constituency
1918		Constituency abolished

Supplemental Notes:-

• ¹ Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Tory candidates as Conservatives from 1832. The name Conservative was gradually adopted as a description for the Tories. The party is deemed to be named Conservative from the 1835 general election.
• ² Walker (like F. W. S. Craig in his compilations of election results for Great Britain) classifies Whig, Radical and similar candidates as Liberals from 1832. The name Liberal was gradually adopted as a description for the Whigs and politicians allied with them, before the formal creation of the Liberal Party shortly after the 1859 general election.

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 "N" (part 2)