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Clonmel (UK Parliament Constituency)
Clonmel was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one MP List of United Kingdom parliamentary constituencies in Ireland 1801–1885, from 1801 to 1885. It was represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801. History The corporation of Clonmel, which was the local government of its area, was reformed by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840. The parliamentary borough was not affected by this change in administrative arrangements. Samuel Lewis, writing in 1837, described the Oligarchy, oligarchic constitution of the unreformed borough. The constituency was disenfranchised under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, which took effect at the 1885 United Kingdom general election in Ireland, 1885 general election.First Schedule Part I: Boroughs to cease to exist as such. Boundaries This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Clonmel in County Tipperary. The boundary of the borough was def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clonmel
Clonmel () is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Drogheda and Wexford. With the exception of the townland of Suir Island, most of the borough is situated in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of "St Mary's" which is part of the ancient Barony (Ireland), barony of Iffa and Offa East. Etymology The name Clonmel is derived from the anglicisation of the Irish name ''Cluain Meala'' meaning "honey meadow" or "honey valley". While it is not clearly known when it got this name, some sources suggest that it is associated with the fertility of the soil and the "richness of the country" in which it is located. History Town walls Clonmel grew significantly in medieval times and was protected by town walls. A small section of the town walls remains in place near Old St. Mary's Church (Clon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 Clonmel By-election
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Nicholas Ball (lawyer)
Nicholas Ball PC (Ire), QC (1791 – 19 January 1865) was an Irish barrister, judge and Liberal politician. He was the second son of John Ball, a silk mercer of Dublin, where he lived for many years at No 75, St Stephen's Green. He was the only son of his father's second marriage to Mabel Clare Bennett of Eyrecourt, County Galway. He had one half-brother John and four sisters, including the leading philanthropist Anna Maria Ball, Mother Frances Mary Teresa Ball, founder of the Irish House of the Sisters of Loreto, and Isabella Ball, mother of the prominent barrister and politician David Sherlock. As a young man he travelled widely in Europe and spent two years in Rome, where he was said to have met members of the Curia to discuss Catholic Emancipation. Ball was called to the bar in 1814 and became a King's Counsel in 1830. Six years later, he was nominated as Third Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and was admitted additionally a bencher of King's Inns. In the same year he al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 Clonmel By-election
Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. * January 5 – Former U.S. Representative Davy Crockett of Tennessee arrives in Texas to join the Texan fight for independence from Mexico. * January 12 ** , with Charles Darwin on board, reaches Sydney. ** Will County, Illinois, is formed. * February 8 – London and Greenwich Railway opens its first section, the first railway in London, England. * February 23 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of the Alamo begins, with an American settler army surrounded by the Mexican Army, under Santa Anna. * February 25 – Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm. * March 1 – Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836: Delegates f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whigs (British Political Party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when the faction merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912. The Whigs began as a political faction that opposed absolute monarchy and Catholic emancipation, supporting constitutional monarchism and parliamentary government, but also Protestant supremacy. They played a central role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and were the standing enemies of the Roman Catholic Stuart kings and pretenders. The period known as the Whig Supremacy (1714–1760) was enabled by the Hanoverian succession of George I in 1714 and the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 United Kingdom General Election
The 1835 United Kingdom general election was called when Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. Polling took place between 6 January and 6 February 1835, and the results saw Robert Peel's Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives make large gains from their low of the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 election, but the Whigs (British political party), Whigs maintained a large majority. Under the terms of the Lichfield House Compact the Whigs had entered into an electoral pact with the Irish Repeal Association of Daniel O'Connell, which had contested the previous election as a separate party. The Radicals (UK), Radicals were also included in this alliance. Dates of election The eleventh United Kingdom Parliament was dissolved on 29 December 1834. The new Parliament was summoned to meet on 19 February 1835, for a maximum seven-year term from that date. The maximum term could be and normally was curtailed, by the monarch dissolving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repeal Association
The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to the fully devolved government briefly achieved by Henry Grattan and his patriots in the 1780s—that is, complete legislative independence for the Parliament of Ireland under the British Crown—but this time with Catholic voting rights that were now possible following the Act of Emancipation in 1829, supported by the electorate approved under the Irish Reform Act 1832. On its failure by the late 1840s the Young Ireland movement developed. Repealer candidates contested the 1832 United Kingdom general election The 1832 United Kingdom general election was held on 8 December 1832 to 8 January 1833. The first election to be held in the newly-reformed House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the Whigs (British polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominick Ronayne
Dominick Ronanye (1790 – 14 January 1836) was an Irish politician. Ronanye lived at Ringvine in County Waterford, and was a cousin of Daniel O'Connell. He served as a barrister. He stood in Dungarvan at the 1830 UK general election, but most of his voters were disallowed as they had instead registered in the County Waterford constituency, and he lost by 350 votes to 50. At the 1832 UK general election, he stood in Clonmel and was elected for the Repeal Association The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to .... He was re-elected in the 1835 UK general election as a Whig, but died in January 1836, still in office. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ronayne, Dominick 1790 births 1836 deaths Irish barristers Irish Repeal Association MPs Members of the Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 United Kingdom General Election
The 1832 United Kingdom general election was held on 8 December 1832 to 8 January 1833. The first election to be held in the newly-reformed House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the Whigs (British political party), Whigs under Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Earl Grey won a landslide victory with a majority of 224 seats. Earl Grey, Prime Minister since November 1830, led the first predominantly Whigs (British political party), Whig administration since 1806–07, supported by Radicals and allied politicians, though no formal Liberal Party existed yet. John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp led the House of Commons and served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Tories, led by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, had not fully adopted the Conservative label. In Ireland, Daniel O'Connell's Irish Repeal Association campaigned for the repeal of the Acts of Union 1800, Act of Union, presenting independent candidates. The election took place from Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eyre Coote (MP)
Eyre Coote may refer to: * Eyre Coote (East India Company officer) (1726–1783), Irish soldier and Commander-in-chief of India * Eyre Coote (British Army officer) (1762–1823), Irish-born general in the British Army * Eyre Coote (MP) (1806–1834), MP for Clonmel Clonmel () is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Dro ..., son of the above * Eyre Tilson Coote, 3rd Baron Castle Coote (1793–1827), Sheriff of County Dublin * Eyre Coote (born 1857) (1857–1925), British Army Officer and Conservative candidate, Sheriff of County Dublin {{DEFAULTSORT:Coote, Eyre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 Clonmel By-election
Year 183 ( CLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Victorinus (or, less frequently, year 936 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 183 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Births * January 26 – Lady Zhen, wife of the Cao Wei state Emperor Cao Pi (d. 221) * Hu Zong, Chinese general, official and poet of the Eastern Wu state (d. 242) * Liu Zan (Zhengming), Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 255) * Lu Xun Lu Xun ( zh, c=魯迅, p=Lǔ Xùn, ; 25 September 188119 October 1936), pen name of Zhou Shuren, born Zhou Zhangshou, was a Chinese writer. A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a no ..., Chinese general and politician of the Eastern Wu state (d. 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Limerick (UK Parliament Constituency)
County Limerick was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. Boundaries This constituency comprised County Limerick, except for the parliamentary borough of Limerick, which was formed by the Limerick City constituency. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 1830s Lloyd's death caused a by-election. * On petition, O'Grady was unseated in favour of Massy Dawson. Elections in the 1840s O'Brien was adjudged guilty of high treason, causing a by-election. Elections in the 1850s Dickson's death caused a by-election. Monsell was appointed a clerk of ordnance, requiring a by-election. Goold's death caused a by-election. Monsell was appointed President of the Board of Health, requiring a by-election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
