Philipstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Philipstown | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | King's County |
| Borough | Philipstown (now Daingean) |
| ?–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Philipstown in King's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The town was later renamed Daingean in 1922.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1585 | John Freman | Edward Williams[1] | ||||
| 1613 | Colley Philips | Robert Leicester[1] | ||||
| 1634 | Robert Leicester | Thomas Moore[2] | ||||
| 1639 | John Moore | Simon Digby[1] | ||||
| 1661 | Dudley Colley | Sir George Blundell[3] | ||||
| 1692 | Peter Purefoy | Duke Giffard | ||||
| 1695 | Robert Peppard | |||||
| 1698 | John Lovett | |||||
| 1703 | George Monck | John Moore | ||||
| November 1713 | John Forster | James Peppard | ||||
| 1713 | William Purefoy | |||||
| 1715 | William Tichborne | James Forth | ||||
| 1717 | William Molesworth | |||||
| 1727 | Robert Adair | |||||
| 1737 | Boleyn Whitney | |||||
| 1759 | Viscount Belfield | |||||
| May 1761 | Robert Rochford | |||||
| 1761 | Duke Tyrrell | |||||
| 1768 | Richard Rochfort-Mervyn | |||||
| 1769 | Duke Tyrrell | |||||
| 1776 | John Handcock | Hugh Carleton | ||||
| 1783 | John Toler | Henry Cope | ||||
| 1790 | William Sankey | Arthur O'Connor | Patriot/Whig | |||
| 1795 | John Longfield | |||||
| 1798 | Francis Knox | Robert Crowe | ||||
| 1800 | Robert Johnson | James Mahon | ||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". TARA - Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
- ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
- ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 622.
- 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.