Mullingar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Mullingar | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Westmeath |
| Borough | Mullingar |
| –1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Mullingar was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.
Borough
[edit]The constituency represented the parliamentary borough of Mullingar.
Members of Parliament
[edit]- 1560 Nicholas Casey and James Reling[1]
- 1585 Richard Casey and Redmond Pettit[1]
- 1613–1615: Nicholas Casey and John Hammond[1]
- 1634–1635: Edward Pettit and James Christabel[2]
- 1639–1649: Edward Pettit (died and replaced 1642 by Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet) and Alexander Hope (died and replaced 1642 by Oliver Wheeler)[1]
- 1661–1666: Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard (sat for Tyrone and replaced by Sir Robert Newcomen) and James Leighe[1]
1689–1801
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Garrett (or Gerald) Dillon | Edmond Nugent | ||||
| 1692 | Roger Moore | Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Bt | ||||
| 1695 | Sir Patrick Dun | |||||
| 1703 | Henry Edgeworth | |||||
| 1713 | Thomas Bellew | Charles Melville | ||||
| 1715 | Eustace Budgell | |||||
| 1727 | Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Bt | John Rochfort | ||||
| 1749 | George Forbes, Viscount Forbes | |||||
| 1761 | Hon. John Forbes | |||||
| 1765 | Richard Steele[3] | |||||
| 1768 | Ralph Fetherston[4] | |||||
| 1769 | John Scott | |||||
| 1776 | Richard Underwood | |||||
| 1779 | Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt | |||||
| 1783 | Francis Hardy | John Doyle | ||||
| 1799 | Luke Fox | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
- ^ from 1768 Sir Richard Steele, 1st Bt
- ^ Also returned for St. Johnstown, Co. Longford, for which he chose to sit
References
[edit]- 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.
