Fore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Fore | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Westmeath |
| Borough | Fore |
| –1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.
History
[edit]In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fore was represented with two members.[1]
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent)[2]
- 1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe)
- 1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham[3]
1689–1801
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | John Nugent | Christopher Nugent | ||||
| 1692 | John Adams | James Nugent | ||||
| 1695 | Walter Pollard | Thomas Smith | ||||
| 1713 | Viscount Tamworth | Denis Kelly | ||||
| 1715 | William Smyth | Patrick Fox | ||||
| November 1727 | Robert Perceval | Walter Nugent | ||||
| December 1727 | William Handcock | |||||
| 1741 | Richard Malone | |||||
| 1759 | Lord Delvin | |||||
| 1761 | Godfrey Lill | John Newenham | ||||
| 1768 | Thomas Eyre | John Armstrong | ||||
| 1772 | Benjamin Chapman | |||||
| 1776 | James FitzGerald | Cornelius O'Keefe | ||||
| 1780 | Lord Delvin | |||||
| 1783 | Gervase Parker Bushe | |||||
| 1790 | Stephen Francis William Fremantle | |||||
| 1792 | John Macartney | |||||
| 1794 | Richard Magenis | |||||
| January 1798 | Robert Ross[note 1] | Hon. Richard Annesley[note 2] | ||||
| March 1798 | Cromwell Price | Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt | ||||
| 1798 | John Staunton Rochfort | |||||
| 1800 | Thomas Burgh | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Also elected for Old Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
- ^ Also elected for Blessington in 1798, for which he chose to sit
References
[edit]- ^ O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
- ^ McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
- ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 636.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
