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Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922.
Boundaries
This constituency comprised the whole of County Westmeath , except for the Parliamentary borough of Athlone 1801–1885.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1801–1885
Year
1st Member
1st Party
2nd Member
2nd Party
1801, 1 January
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William Smyth [1]
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Gustavus Hume Rochfort [2]
Tory [3]
1808, 27 February
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Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham
Tory
1812, 24 October
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Tory
1824, 3 March
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Robert Smyth
Tory [3]
1826, 22 June
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Gustavus Rochfort
Tory [3]
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Hugh Morgan Tuite
Whig [3] [4]
1830, 12 August
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Sir Montagu Chapman, Bt
Whig [3] [5]
1832, 20 December
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Sir Richard Nagle, Bt [6]
Repeal Association [7]
1841, 12 July
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Hugh Morgan Tuite
Whig [3] [4]
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Benjamin Chapman
Whig [3]
1847, 10 August
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William Henry Magan
Repeal Association [7]
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Sir Percy Nugent, Bt
Whig [8] [9] [10]
1852, 22 July
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Ind. Irish [7]
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William Pollard-Urquhart
Ind. Irish [7]
1857, 3 April
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Whig [10] [11]
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Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
Ind. Irish [7]
1859, 10 May
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William Pollard-Urquhart
Liberal [7]
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Liberal [7]
1865, 20 July
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Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent (later Baron Greville)
Liberal [7]
1871, 17 July
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Patrick James Smyth
Home Rule [7]
1874, 13 February
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Lord Robert Montagu
Home Rule [7]
1880, 13 April
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Timothy Daniel Sullivan
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Henry Joseph Gill
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Oct 1882
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Irish Parliamentary [7]
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Irish Parliamentary [7]
1883, 27 February
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Timothy Harrington
Irish Parliamentary [7]
1885
Constituency abolished: see North Westmeath and South Westmeath
MPs 1885–1918
Elections
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Greville-Nugent was appointed a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria , requiring a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Pollard-Urquhart's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Gill resigned, causing a by-election.
Election in the 1910s
Notes
^ Resigned, 1808
^ Died in office, 1824
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Smith, Henry Stooks (1842). The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 242–243. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via Google Books .
^ a b The Spectator, Volume 19 . 1846. p. 1205. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via Google Books .
^ Churton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . pp. 40–41. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via Google Books .
^ Re-elected as a candidate of a Whig Party/Repeal Association electoral pact, in 1835 and 1837.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0901714127 .
^ "Elections" . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 11 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Westmeath" . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 28 July 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ a b "The New Parliament" . Lincolnshire Gazette . 20 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ "Dublin Weekly Nation" . 21 March 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ a b Salmon, Philip. "Co. Westmeath" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 24 May 2020 .
References