Limerick County (UK Parliament constituency)

County Limerick, also known as Limerick County, was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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from 1801 to 1885.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Limerick

County Limerick

It is thought that humans had established themselves in the Lough Gur area of the county as early as 3000 BC, while megalithic remains found at Duntryleague date back further to 3500 BC...

, except for the Parliamentary borough

Parliamentary borough

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of Limerick

Limerick

Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...

Members of Parliament

Year	\|2nd Member	2nd Party
1801, 1 Jan		John Waller	William Odell
1802, 22 July		Charles Silver Oliver
1806, 22 November		Windham Quin Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Windham Henry Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl was an Irish Peer.The eldest son of Valentine Richard Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, he was styled Lord Adare from 1816 to 1822 and Viscount Adare thereafter until he succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his father in 1824.He... , later Earl of Dunraven & Mt Earl
1818, 8 July			Richard FitzGibbon, later Earl of Clare
1820, 30 March		Standish O'Grady Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore Standish Darby O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore from Cahir Guillamore, County Limerick, was an Anglo-Irish politician and British Army officer.... , later Viscount Guillamore
1826, 23 Jun		Thomas Lloyd
1830, 2 Feb		Standish O'Grady Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore Standish Darby O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore from Cahir Guillamore, County Limerick, was an Anglo-Irish politician and British Army officer.... , later Viscount Guillamore
1830, 3 May		James Hewitt Massy Dawson
1830, 10 Aug		Standish O'Grady Standish O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore Standish Darby O'Grady, 2nd Viscount Guillamore from Cahir Guillamore, County Limerick, was an Anglo-Irish politician and British Army officer.... , later Viscount Guillamore
1835, 15 Jan		William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was...
1841, 10 Jul			Caleb Powell
1847, 14 Aug			William Monsell William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly PC was an Anglo-Irish landowner and Liberal politician. He held a number of ministerial positions between 1852 and 1873, notably as President of the Board of Health in 1857 and as Postmaster General between 1871 and 1873.-Background and education:Monsell was born to... , later Baron Emly
1849, 1 Jun		Samuel Dickson
1850, 14 Dec		Wyndham Goold
1854, Dec		Stephen de Vere
1859, 16 May		Samuel Auchmuty Dickson
1865, 19 Jul		Edward John Synan
1874, 11 Feb		Edward John Synan	William Henry O'Sullivan
1885 Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...	Constituency divided: see East Limerick and West Limerick West Limerick (UK Parliament constituency) West Limerick was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.Prior to the United Kingdom general election, 1885 the area was part of the Limerick County constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.-Members of Parliament:Notes:-* 1...

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