Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Roscommon was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
| Roscommon | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Roscommon |
| Borough | Roscommon |
| ?–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Members of Parliament
edit- 1613–1615 Maurice Smith and William Marwood[1]
- 1634–1635 George Carr and Edward Deane[1]
- 1639–1649 Robert Bysse[1] and Walter Loftus (died 1641)[2]
- 1661–1666 Oliver Jones and William Somers[2]
1689–1801
edit| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | John Dillon | John Kelly | ||||
| 1692 | Hercules Davys | Henry Sandford | ||||
| 1695 | Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt | |||||
| September 1703 | Robert Sandys | |||||
| 1703 | William Westgarth | |||||
| 1711 | David Kennedy | |||||
| 1713 | Edward Crofton[3] | |||||
| 1733 | William Sandford | |||||
| 1740 | Thomas Mahon | |||||
| 1759 | Edward Sandford | |||||
| 1761 | Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt | Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt | ||||
| 1768 | Nathaniel Clements | Robert Sandford | ||||
| 1769 | Robert Tighe | |||||
| 1776 | Henry Sandford | |||||
| 1783 | Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Bt | George Sandford | ||||
| 1785 | Maurice Coppinger | |||||
| 1790 | Hon. Nathaniel Clements | |||||
| 1791 | Henry Sandford | |||||
| January 1798 | Silver Oliver | |||||
| 1798 | George Sandford | |||||
| 1799 | William Johnson | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
edit- ^ a b c McGrath, Bríd (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
- ^ from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt
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.