Roscommon Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Roscommon Borough
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Seats2
Replaced byDisenfranchised

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
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[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
  3. ^ from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt

References[]

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