List of Escheators of Munster
This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the Irish House of Commons, and after the Union, that of the United Kingdom.
The office was formerly substantive. It was founded in 1605, when the escheatorship for Ireland was divided among the provinces of Connaught, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.[1]
Substantive holders[]
- 1746: William Austen[1]
Members of the Irish House of Commons[]
- 1794: Marcus Beresford (St Canice)[2]
- 1794: Thomas Taylour, Viscount Headfort (Longford Borough)[2]
- 1794: Hon. John Knox (Dungannon)[3]
- 1795: Richard Boyle Townsend (Dingle)[4]
- 1795: George FitzGerald Hill (Coleraine)[2]
- 1795: (Newtown Limavady)[2]
- 1795: Arthur O'Connor (Philipstown)[2]
- 1795: Sackville Hamilton (Clogher)[3]
- February 1795: Hon. Clotworthy Taylor (Trim)[3]
- 1795: Hon. Henry Wellesley (Trim)[3]
- 1796: George Jackson (Coleraine)[2]
- November 1796: Hon. Francis James Mathew (Callan)[2]
- c.1797: Sir James Bond, 1st Baronet (Naas)[4]
- 1798: (Granard)[5]
- 1798: Gorges Lowther (Ratoath)[6]
- 1798: George Ponsonby (Lismore)[7]
- 1798: (Inistioge)[2]
- January 1798: (Granard)[2]
- 1799: (Newtown Limavady)[8]
- 1799: Thomas Kavanagh (Kilkenny City)[9]
- 1799: (Cashel)[6]
- 1799: Henry Alcock (Fethard)[7]
- 1799: (Gorey)[7]
- 1799: Henry Osborne (Carysfort)[7]
- 1799: Ephraim Carroll (Bannow)[7]
- 1800: (Charleville)[10]
- 1800: Hans Blackwood (Killyleagh)[10]
- 1800: John Francis Cradock (Midleton)[10]
- 1800: Theophilus Blakeney (Athenry)[9]
- 1800: John Bingham (Tuam)[9]
- 1800: Robert Crowe (Philipstown)[9]
- 1800: George Fulke Lyttelton (Granard)[5]
- 1800: Nathaniel Sneyd (Carrick)[5]
- 1800: Charles Silver Oliver (Kilmallock)[5]
- 1800: Thomas Conolly (Londonderry County)[5]
- 1800: (Dunleer)[5]
- 1800: (Clonmel)[6]
- 1800: Montague James Mathew (Ballynakill)[6]
- 1800: Eyre Coote (Maryborough)[6]
- 1800: (Fore)[7]
- 1800: (Kilbeggan)[7]
- 1800: Hon. Richard Annesley (Blessington)[7]
- January 1800: William Moore (St Johnstown)[8]
- January 1800: Hon. Robert King (Boyle)[8]
- January 1800: Jonah Barrington (Clogher)[6]
- February 1800: George Crookshank (Belfast)[11]
- February 1800: (Ardfert)[9]
- February 1800: Robert Shaw (Bannow)[7]
- March 1800: Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet (Knocktopher)[9]
- April 1800: (Thomastown)[9]
- June 1800: Edward Hoare (Banagher)[8]
- July 1800: Thomas Whaley (Enniscorthy)[8]
- August 1800: (Dungannon)[8]
Members of the United Kingdom House of Commons[]
- February 1801: (Wexford Borough)[12]
- February 1801: St George Daly (Galway Borough)[13]
- July 1801: Francis Aldborough Prittie (Carlow Borough)[13]
- December 1802: Henry Parnell (Portarlington)[14]
- August 1803: William Handcock (Athlone)[14]
- June 1805: Denis Bowes Daly (Galway Borough)[15]
- July 1806: Owen Wynne (Sligo Borough)[14]
- January 1807: (Dundalk)[16]
- February 1808: James Fitzgerald (Ennis)[17]
- February 1808: (Westmeath)[18]
- July 1808: Francis Nathaniel Burton (Clare)[17]
- April 1809: (Cashel)[19]
- March 1811: James Daly (Galway Borough)[17]
- June 1811: John Claudius Beresford (County Waterford)[18]
- May 1812: Francis Savage (Down)[17]
- December 1812: (Dundalk)[20]
- December 1812: James Fitzgerald (Ennis)[21]
- May 1814: (Kilkenny City)[20]
- July 1814: (Wexford Borough)[22]
- March 1815: Joshua Spencer (Sligo Borough)[20]
- July 1815: George Abercromby (Clackmannanshire)[23]
- May 1820: John McClintock (Athlone)[24]
- June 1820: Sir Ross Mahon, Bt. (Ennis)[25]
- June 1820: (Dundalk)[26]
- December 1830: John Doherty (Newport)[27]
After the Acts of Union 1800, the office was retained as a sinecure, without duties, and was also used for resignation from Parliamentary seats. John Hewson was appointed to the post by letters patent in 1825, 1830, 1837, and 1838. In the latter year, however, all of the Irish escheatorships were abolished by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[28]
Notes[]
- ^ a b Reports from committees, p. 78.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Return of the names..., p. 684.
- ^ a b c d Return of the names..., p. 685.
- ^ a b Return of the names..., p. 683.
- ^ a b c d e f Return of the names..., p. 689.
- ^ a b c d e f Return of the names..., p. 690.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Return of the names..., p. 691.
- ^ a b c d e f Beaven 1881, p. 40.
- ^ a b c d e f g Return of the names..., p. 688.
- ^ a b c Return of the names..., p. 687.
- ^ Beaven 1881, p. 39.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 214.
- ^ a b Return of the names..., p. 213.
- ^ a b c Return of the names..., p. 229.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 228.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 240.
- ^ a b c d Return of the names..., p. 255.
- ^ a b Return of the names..., p. 257.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 256.
- ^ a b c Return of the names..., p. 271.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 270.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 272.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 268.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 299.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 297.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 298.
- ^ Return of the names..., p. 316.
- ^ Reports from committees, p. 79.
References[]
- Reports from committees. Vol. 12. 1894.
- Parliament Commons, Lists (1879). Return of the names of every Member returned to serve in each Parliament. Vol. Part II.
- Beaven, Arthur B. (1881). "Errors in the official return of the Members of the Irish House of Commons". Collectanea Genealogica: 33–41.
See also[]
- Lists of British people
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Lists of Irish people
- Lists of Irish parliamentarians