Baltimore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Parliament of Ireland former constituency infobox
Name = Baltimore
Type = Borough
Year = 1614
Post-Union = Disfranchised

Baltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.

Members of Parliament

It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1613 to 1800.

Baltimore, Incorporated March 25th, 1613.

* 1613-1615
** 1613 Sir Thomas Crooke
** 1613 Henry Pierce
* 1634-1635
** Lott Peere
** 1635 Edward Skipwith,
** 1635 James Travers, vice Lott Peere, absent in England
* 1639-1641
** 1639 Bryan Jones
** 1639 Henry Knyveton
* 1661-1666
** 1661 Sir Nicholas Purdon
** 1661 Richard Townsend
* 1689 Patriot Parliament
** 1689 Daniel O'Donovan
** 1689 Jeremy Donovan
* 1692-1695
** Thomas Beecher (1640-1709),
** Edward Richardson
* 1695-1703
** Thomas Beecher
** Edward Richardson
* 1703-1713
** Percy Freke (c.1643-1707).
** 1703 Thomas Beecher d.1709
** 1707 by-election Edward Riggs (11th July 1686-13 November 1741), vice Freke, deceased.
** 1709 Francis Langston (c.1660-6th April 1723), vice Beecher, deceased
* 1713-1715
** 1713 Hon.Richard Barry (1665-1754)
** Michael Beecher (1673-1725/6)
* 1715-1727
** 1715 Hon. William Southwell (21st September 1682-23rd January 1719/20)
** Michael Beecher
** 1721 Sir Percy Freke ((1700-4th April 1728)
*1727-1761
** 1727 Sir Percy Freke
** 1727 Richard Tonson (6th January1692-24th June 1773)
** 1728 Sir John Redmond Freke (c1707-13th April 1774),
* 1761-1768
** 1761 William Clements (1733-4th June 1770
** 1761 Richard Tonson
* 1768-1776
** 1768 Richard Longfield
** 1768 Richard Tonson
** 1768 Sir John Evans-Freke, (1744-20 March 1777)
** 1773 Jocelyn Deane (1749-19th November 1780)
* 1776-1783
** 1776 Sir John Evans-Freke
** 1777 William Evans (16th May 1747-February 1796
** 1781 Sir James Chatterton (1750-9th April 1806
* 1783-1790
** Rt. Hon Richard Longfield (9th October 1734-23rd May 1811)
* 1783, Hon Arthur Saunders Gore (20th July 1761-20th January 1837
* 1790-1797
** 1790 John Evans-Freke ((11 November 1765-12 May 1807)
** 1790 Richard Grace (1761-9th January 1801)
* 1797-1800
** 1797 John Evans-Freke
** 1797 George Evans (July 1772-19th June 1829)

Potwalloper

A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. (Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801). A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or "wallop", a cauldron, or "pot".

Elections

ee also

*Baltimore, a town in County Cork, Republic of Ireland.
*Irish House of Commons
*List of Irish constituencies

References

* [http://myhome.ispdr.net.au/~mgrogan/cork/mp.htm]
* Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
* T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, "A New History of Ireland 1534-1691", Oxford University Press, 1978
* Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8
* List of Irish constituencies