Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Roscommon Borough | |
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Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1800 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Roscommon Borough was a constituency represented 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
- 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
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Dillon | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | John Kelly | ||
1692 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hercules Davys | rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Sandford | ||
1695 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt | ||||
September 1703 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Sandys | ||||
1703 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Westgarth | ||||
1711 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | David Kennedy | ||||
1713 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Crofton [3] | ||||
1733 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Sandford | ||||
1740 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Thomas Mahon | ||||
1759 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Edward Sandford | ||||
1761 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt | ||
1768 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Clements | rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Sandford | ||
1769 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Robert Tighe | ||||
1776 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Sandford | ||||
1783 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Bt | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Sandford | ||
1785 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Maurice Copinger | ||||
1790 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Hon. Nathaniel Clements | ||||
1791 | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Henry Sandford | ||||
January 1798 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Silver Oliver | ||||
1798 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | George Sandford | ||||
1799 | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | William Johnson | ||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
Notes
References
- 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.