Roscommon County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Roscommon County | |
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Former County constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1800 |
Replaced by | Roscommon |
Roscommon County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.
Members of Parliament
- 1613–15 Sir John King [1]
- 1657 James King
- 1661 Oliver Jones
- 1662 George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough
1692–1801
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1692 | Sir Robert King, 1st Bt | George St George [2] | ||||
1703 | Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt | |||||
November 1713 | James Donnellan | |||||
1713 | Sir George St George, 2nd Bt | |||||
1715 | Sir John King, 2nd Bt | |||||
1721 | Arthur French | |||||
1727 | Sir Henry King, 3rd Bt | |||||
1730 | Nicholas Mahon | |||||
1735 | Edward Crofton [3] | |||||
1741 | Henry Sandford | |||||
1745 | John French | |||||
1761 | Thomas Mahon | |||||
1775 | Edward Crofton [4] | |||||
1782 | Maurice Mahon | |||||
1783 | Arthur French | |||||
1798 | George King, Viscount Kingsborough | |||||
1799 | Thomas Mahon | |||||
1801 | Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon |
Notes
- ↑ Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (d. 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
- ↑ from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
- ↑ from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
- ↑ from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt
References
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
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