Carlow County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Carlow County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords...

 to 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament
Patriot Parliament
The Patriot Parliament is the name given to the session of the Irish Parliament called by King James II of Ireland during the War of the Two Kings in 1689. The parliament met in one session, from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689, and was the only session of the Irish Parliament under King James II.The...

 of 1689 summoned by King James II
James II of England
James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

, Carlow County was represented with two members.

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament
Patriot Parliament
The Patriot Parliament is the name given to the session of the Irish Parliament called by King James II of Ireland during the War of the Two Kings in 1689. The parliament met in one session, from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689, and was the only session of the Irish Parliament under King James II.The...

Dudley Bagnal Henry Lutterel
1692 Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Bt
Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet of Cloughgrenan , was an Irish baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edmund Butler, 2nd Baronet and Juliana Hyde, daughter of Bernard Hyde. By 1650, he succeeded his father as baronet. In 1670 and again in 1691, Butler was High Sheriff of Carlow...

John Trench
1695 John Allen
John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen
Captain John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen PC was an Irish peer and politician.He was the son of Sir Joshua Allen....

1703 Pierce Butler
Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet
Sir Pierce Butler, 4th Baronet of Cloughgrenan , PC was an Irish politician and baronet....

  Succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1704
1704 Thomas Burdett
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.Born at Garrahill in County Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Baronet...

1713 Jeffrey Paul
1715 Francis Harrison Thomas Burdett
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.Born at Garrahill in County Carlow, he was the son of Thomas Burdett and his wife Catherine Kennedy, daughter of Sir Robert Kennedy, 1st Baronet...

  Created a baronet in 1723
1725 Jeffrey Paul
1727 Robert Burton
1730 Richard Butler
Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet
Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.He was the eldest son of James Butler, second son of Sir Thomas Butler, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Frances Abney, daughter of Sir Edward Abney. Butler represented Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons from 1730 to 1761...

  Succeeded as 5th Baronet in 1732
1761 Benjamin Burton Thomas Butler
Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet
Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy. Butler sat for Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to 1768, the same constituency several members of...

1767 John Hyde
1768 Beauchamp Bagenal
Beauchamp Bagenal
Beauchamp Bagenal was an Irish rake, buck, duellist and politician.He was born in County Carlow in 1741 and inherited the family estates aged 11. Bagenal gained a reputation as a hell raiser and serial heartbreaker, and was reportedly described as the handsomest man in Ireland...

William Henry Burton
1776 William Bunbury
1778 Beauchamp Bagenal
Beauchamp Bagenal
Beauchamp Bagenal was an Irish rake, buck, duellist and politician.He was born in County Carlow in 1741 and inherited the family estates aged 11. Bagenal gained a reputation as a hell raiser and serial heartbreaker, and was reportedly described as the handsomest man in Ireland...

1783 Sir Richard Butler, 7th Bt
Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet
Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet and his wife Dorothea Bayly, daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin. In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet...

1790 Henry Bruen
Henry Bruen (1741–1795)
Henry Bruen was an Irish politician. In the pre-Act of Union Parliament of Ireland, he was Member of Parliament for Jamestown from 1783 to 1790, and then for Carlow County from 1790 until his death in 1795.- Family :...

1796 Sir Richard Butler, 7th Bt
Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet
Sir Richard Butler, 7th Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet and his wife Dorothea Bayly, daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin. In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet...

1801
United Kingdom general election, 1801
The United Kingdom general election, 1801 was not an election as such, but the co-option of members to serve in the first Parliament to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801...

Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Carlow County
Carlow County (UK Parliament constituency)
Carlow County was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and one MP from 1885 to 1922....

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