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County Kildare was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1297 to 1801.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Kildare was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

• 1429 Sir Richard FitzEustace
• 1560 Nicholas Eustace and James Flattisbury
• 1585 William Sutton and Thomas Fitzmorris
• 1613–1615 John Sutton and Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet
• 1634–1635 Sir Nicholas Whyte and Maurice Eustace (Speaker)
• 1639 Maurice Fitzgerald (expelled and replaced 1642 by Henry Warren) and Maurice Eustace (Speaker)
• 1661–1666 Hon Robert Fitzgerald and Sir Paul Davys

1689–1801

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1717
2. Styled as The Honourable from 1721

References

1. Bentham, William (1831). "Dignities, Feudal and Parliamentary". The National Magazine. 2 (4): 264. doi:10.2307/30058467. ISSN 2009-1656.
2. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
3. ^ McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
4. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 618.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• 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.

• Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
• Historic constituencies in County Kildare
• 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
• Constituencies disestablished in 1800