Fethard (County Wexford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Not to be confused with Fethard (County Tipperary) (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Fethard was a constituency in County Wexford represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

Fethard
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Wexford
Borough	Fethard-on-Sea
1613 (1613)–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fethard was represented with two members.^[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

• 1613–1615 Nicholas Loftus of Fethard and Richard Pemberton^[2]
• 1634–1635 Nicholas Loftus of Kildogan and Richard Parsons^[2]
• 1639–1649 Hugh Rochford (expelled) and Nicholas Stafford of Balmakatheryn (expelled)
• 1661–1666 Nicholas Loftus and Sir Nicholas Loftus^[3]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		James Porter			Nicholas Stafford
1692		Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Bt			Dudley Loftus
1695					Sir Nicholas Loftus
1703					Thomas Palliser
1710		Nicholas Loftus
1713		Hugh Morgan
1715		Henry Ponsonby
1727		James Stopford			George Houghton
1733					Philip Doyne
1755					Charles Tottenham
1759		Nicholas Hume-Loftus[note 1]
1761					Hon. Nicholas Hume-Loftus
1764					William Alcock
1767		John Tottenham
1768					Arthur Loftus
1776		Charles Tottenham[note 2]			Robert Hellen
1779					Ponsonby Tottenham
1783		Ephraim Carroll
1790		Charles Tottenham			Thomas Loftus
January 1793					Henry Hatton
1793					Luke Fox
1796		William Loftus
1798		Henry Alcock			Charles Eustace
1799		George Harrison Reade
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1763 and as Viscount Loftus from 1766
2. Also elected for Wexford Borough in 1783, for which he chose to sit