Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
| Roscommon | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Roscommon |
| Borough | Roscommon |
| ?–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
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.
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.