Armagh City (UK Parliament constituency)

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Armagh City Borough constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons

Armagh City was a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Armagh in County Armagh. It was the successor constituency to the Armagh City constituency of the Parliament of Ireland.

The community was disenfranchised in the 1885 redistribution of parliamentary seats and incorporated in the county division of Mid Armagh.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Note
	1801, January 1	Patrick Duigenan	Tory	1801: Co-opted. 1816: Died.
	1816, May 8	Daniel Webb Webber	Tory
	1818, June 26	John Leslie Foster	Tory	Also returned for Lisburn
	1820, March 16	William Stuart	Tory
	1826, June 19	Rt Hon. Henry Goulburn	Tory
	1831, May 10	Viscount Ingestre	Tory	Resigned to contest Dublin
	1831, August 25	Sir John William Head Brydges	Tory
	1832, December 15	Leonard Dobbin	Liberal
	1837, August 7	William Curry	Liberal	Appointed Master in Chancery
	1840, May 22	John Dawson Rawdon	Liberal
	1852, July 9	Ross Stephenson Moore	Conservative	Died
	1855, December 6	Joshua Walter McGeough Bond	Conservative
	1857, April 2	Stearne Ball Miller	Conservative
	1859, May 5	Joshua Walter McGeough Bond	Conservative
	1865, July 17	Stearne Ball Miller	Conservative	Appointed Judge in Bankruptcy
	1867, January 30	John Vance	Conservative	Died
	1875, October 18	George Beresford	Conservative	Last MP for the constituency
1885		Constituency abolished

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)