Enniskillen (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

54.347°N 7.640°W / 54.347; -7.640

Enniskillen
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Fermanagh
Borough	Enniskillen
1613 (1613) (1613 (1613))–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Enniskillen

Enniskillen was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Enniskillen was not represented.^[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

1613–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		Roger Atkinson			Humphrey Farnham
1634		Sir John Borlase			Sir Paul Davys
1639		Captain Sir John Borlase			Arthur Champion[note 1]
1661		Sir Michael Cole			Sir Robert Cole
1689		Enniskillen was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692		Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt			Sir Michael Cole
1695		Abraham Creighton
1703		John Cole
1711					John Corry
1713					Richard Cole
1727		James Saunderson
1730					John Cole
1761		Hon. William Willoughby Cole			Richard Gorges
February 1768		Richard Gorges[note 2]
August 1768					Armar Lowry[note 3]
1769					Bernard Smyth Ward
1771					Hugh Henry Mitchell
1776		Sir Archibald Acheson, 6th Bt			John Leigh
1777		Henry Flood	Irish Patriot Party
October 1783		Sir John Blaquiere[note 4]			John McClintock
1783		James Stewart
1790		Arthur Cole-Hamilton			Richard Magenis
1797					Hon. Lowry Cole
1800					Henry Osborne
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Enniskillen

Notes

1. Murdered in 1641
2. Changed surnamed Gorges-Meredyth in 1775
3. Also elected for County Tyrone in 1768, for which he chose to sit
4. Also elected for Carlingford in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 503.

• Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.