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County Kildare is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two MPs to the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1801 to 1885.
This constituency comprised the whole of County Kildare .
Members of Parliament [ edit ]
Date
First member
First party
Second member
Second party
1801, 1 January
Maurice Keatinge
John La Touche Whig
1802, 20 July
Lord Robert FitzGerald Whig
Robert La Touche
1806, 21 November
Whig [ 1]
1807, 21 May
Lord Henry FitzGerald [ 2] Whig
1814, 23 March
Lord William FitzGerald Whig [ 3]
1830, 18 August
Richard More O'Ferrall [ 4] Whig [ 3] [ 5]
1831, 9 May
Sir Josiah Hort, Bt Whig [ 3]
1832, 21 December
Edward Ruthven [ 6] Repeal Association [ 3] [ 7]
1837, 11 August
Robert Archbold Whig [ 3] [ 8]
1847, 18 August
Charles FitzGerald Whig [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] Richard Bourke Conservative [ 7] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
1852, 13 March
William H. F. Cogan Radical [ 12] [ 13]
1852, 26 July
David O'Connor Henchy Ind. Irish [ 7] Ind. Irish [ 7]
1857, 7 April
Whig [ 14] Radical [ 12] [ 13]
1859, 19 May
Richard More O'Ferrall [ 15] Whig
1859, 6 June
Liberal
Liberal
1865, 19 July
Lord Otho FitzGerald [ 16] Liberal
1874, 12 February
Charles Henry Meldon [ 17] Home Rule League
1880, 5 April
James Leahy [ 18] Home Rule League
1882
Irish Parliamentary
Irish Parliamentary
Elections in the 1830s [ edit ] O'Ferrall was appointed as a Commissioner of the Treasury, requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s [ edit ] Elections in the 1850s [ edit ] Bourke was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1860s [ edit ] FitzGerald was appointed Treasurer of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Fitzgerald was appointed Comptroller of the Household , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s [ edit ] Elections in the 1880s [ edit ]
^ Salmon, Philip. "LATOUCHE, Robert (1773-1844), of Harristown, co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 . ^ Resigned, 1813
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections . Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books . ^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 26 May 1835, after being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury .
^ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books .^ Re-elected in the 1835 general election, as a candidate of a Whig/Repealer electoral pact
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 220, 285–286. ISBN 0901714127 ^ Mosse, Richard Bartholomew (1837). The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc . Retrieved 22 August 2019 – via Google Books . ^ a b "County of Kildare" Dublin Evening Packet and Correspondent . 19 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .^ a b The Protestant Elector . Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via Google Books .^ a b "General Election" London Evening Standard . 18 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .^ a b "Ireland" . London Evening Standard . 1 March 1852. p. 1. Retrieved 2 October 2018 .^ a b "The Evening Freeman" . Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .^ "Defeat of the Ministry" Wexford Independent . 7 March 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 2 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .^ Became a Liberal on the formal creation of that party, soon after the 1859 general election.
^ Re-elected in a by-election, on 21 May 1866, after being appointed Treasurer of the Household . Re-elected in a by-election, on 11 January 1869, after being appointed Comptroller of the Household .
^ Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
^ A supporter of the Parnellite faction of the Home Rule League, at the 1880 general election. Became a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, when it was created in 1882.
^ a b Salmon, Philip. "Co. Kildare" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 15 May 2020 . ^ "The General Election" Freeman's Journal . Retrieved 19 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
