Roscommon Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Roscommon Borough | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1800 |
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Roscommon Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
Members of Parliament[]
- 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[]
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | John Dillon | John Kelly | ||||
1692 | ||||||
1695 | Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt | |||||
September 1703 | ||||||
1703 | ||||||
1711 | ||||||
1713 | Edward Crofton[3] | |||||
1733 | William Sandford | |||||
1740 | ||||||
1759 | ||||||
1761 | Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt | Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt | ||||
1768 | Nathaniel Clements | |||||
1769 | ||||||
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[]
- ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History. hdl:2262/77206.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
- ^ from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt
References[]
- 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.
Categories:
- Historic constituencies in County Roscommon
- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- 1611 establishments in Ireland
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies established in 1611
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800