Fethard was a constituency in County Wexford represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.
History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fethard was represented with two members.
Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
1613–1615 Nicholas Loftus of Fethard and Richard Pemberton 1634–1635 Nicholas Loftus of Kildogan and Richard Parsons 1639–1649 Hugh Rochford (expelled) and Nicholas Stafford of Balmakatheryn (expelled) 1661–1666 Nicholas Loftus and Sir Nicholas Loftus
1689–1801 ElectionFirst MPSecond 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-LoftusStyled as The Honourable from 1763 and as Viscount Loftus from 1766 1761 Hon. Nicholas Hume-Loftus 1764 William Alcock 1767 John Tottenham 1768 Arthur Loftus 1776 Charles TottenhamAlso elected for Wexford in 1783, for which he chose to sit 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
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