Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

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Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington in Queen's County now called County Laois.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1801	Frederick Trench
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	March 1801	William Elliot
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" |	July 1802	Henry Brook Parnell	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	December 1802	Thomas Tyrwhitt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	March 1806	John Langston
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	November 1806	Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1807	Hon. William Lamb	Whig
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1812	Arthur Shakespeare
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" |	1816	Richard Sharp	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Whig Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1819	David Ricardo	Whig
style="background-color: Template:Tory Party/meta/color" |	1824	James Farquhar	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" |	1830	Sir Charles Ogle, Bt	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" |	1831	Sir William Rae, Bt	Tory
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1832	Thomas Gladstone	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1835	George Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1847	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1852		Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1857	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1865	James Anthony Lawson	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1868	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1880	Bernard FitzPatrick	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1883	Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster	Conservative
	1885	constituency abolished

See also

• Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)