Hillsborough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Hillsborough 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...

 until 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...

, Hillsborough was not represented.

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Hillsborough was not represented 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...

1692 Sir John Magill  William Shaw
1695 Michael Hill
1703 Thomas Keightley  Also elected for Kildare County
Kildare County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Kildare County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.-History:In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Kildare County was represented with two members.-1689–1801:...

 in 1703, for which he chose to sit
Samuel Waring
1703 William Richardson
William Richardson (1656–1727)
William Richardson was an Irish politician. He was the MP for Armagh in 1692 and Hillsborough in 1703. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Reynell, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland, in 1695.-References:...

1713 Trevor Hill
Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough
Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician.The son of Michael Hill and Anne Trevor, Hill was the member of an influential landowning family of County Down, Ireland. He sat in the British House of Commons as a representative for Aylesbury from 1715 to 1722...

1715 Arthur Hill
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon , was an Irish politician.Born Arthur Hill, he adopted the surname Hill-Trevor in 1759. He was the second son of Robert Hill of Hillsborough, M.P. and Privy Councillor, and Anne Trevor. His maternal grandfather was the leading seventeenth-century...

1727 Thomas Carter Francis Stoyte
1733 William Cooper  Created a baronet in 1758
1761 Arthur Trevor William Montgomery
1771 Charles Powell Leslie
1776 Charles Dunbar  Also elected for Blessington
Blessington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Blessington in County Wicklow was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1670 until 1800.-History:In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Blessington was represented with two members.-1689–1801:...

 in 1776, for which he chose to sit
1777 James Bailie
1788 Robert Johnson
January 1800 Chichester Fortescue
February 1800 William Edmond Reilly
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...

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