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Mullingar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Mullingar
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Mullingar was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

  • 1560 Nicholas Casey and James Reling [1]
  • 1585 Richard Casey and Redmond Pettit [1]
  • 1613–1615: Nicholas Casey and John Hammond [1]
  • 1634–1635: Edward Pettit and James Christabel [2]
  • 1639–1649: Edward Pettit (died and replaced 1642 by Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet) and Alexander Hope (died and replaced 1642 by Oliver Wheeler) [1]
  • 1661–1666: Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard (sat for Tyrone and replaced by Sir Robert Newcomen) and James Leighe [1]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Garrett (or Gerald) Dillon style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edmond Nugent
1692 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Roger Moore style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Bt
1695 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Patrick Dun
1703 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Edgeworth
1713 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Bellew style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Melville
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Eustace Budgell
1727 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Bt rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Rochfort
1749 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Forbes, Viscount Forbes
1761 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. John Forbes
1765 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Steele [3]
1768 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Ralph Fetherston [4]
1769 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Scott
1776 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Underwood
1779 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt
1783 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Hardy style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Doyle
1799 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Luke Fox
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  2. ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
  3. ^ from 1768 Sir Richard Steele, 1st Bt
  4. ^ Also returned for St. Johnstown, Co. Longford, for which he chose to sit

References