Queen's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The county was known as County Laois from 1922.
| Queen's County | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| Local government in prov | Queen's County |
| ?–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Queen's County |
Members of Parliament
edit- 1585 Warham St Leger and Robert Harpole[1]
- 1613–1615 Sir Robert Pigott and Sir Henry Power[1]
- 1634–1635 John Pigott and Sir Piers Crosby[1]
- 1639–1649 John Pigott (died and replaced in 1646 by Francis Barrington) and Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet (Coote died and replaced 1642 by George Graham. Graham died and replaced 1642 by Terence McGrath. Mcgrath died and replaced 1646 by Gilbert Rawson)[2]
- 1661–1666 Thomas Pigott and Childley Coote (Coote died and replaced 1661 by Daniel Hutchinson)[2]
1689–1801
edit| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Sir Patrick Trant | Edmond Morres | ||||
| 1692 | John Weaver | John Weaver | ||||
| 1695 | Robert Warneford | |||||
| 1703 | Dudley Cosby | |||||
| 1713 | Richard FitzPatrick | |||||
| 1715 | Ephraim Dawson | |||||
| 1729 | Richard Warburton | |||||
| 1747 | George Evans | |||||
| 1761 | William Dawson | William Pole | ||||
| 1768 | John Dawson[3] | |||||
| 1776 | Charles Coote | |||||
| 1779 | John Warburton | |||||
| 1783 | Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt | |||||
| 1790 | Viscount Moore | |||||
| 1791 | John Warburton | |||||
| 1798 | Charles Coote | |||||
| 1801 | Superseded by Westminster constituency of Queen's County | |||||
Notes
edit- ^ a b c McGrath, Bríd (29 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
- ^ from 1770 Hon. John Dawson
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.