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54°28′05″N 6°41′02″W / 54.468°N 6.684°W / 54.468; -6.684

Charlemont
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created1613 (1613)
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Charlemont was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

It represented Charlemont, County Armagh, an important military post since the founding of Charlemont Fort in 1602.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Charlemont was not represented.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

  • 1613–1315 Sir Edward Moore and Faithful Fortescue [2]
  • 1634–1635 Chichester Fortescue and Hon Arthur Moore [2]
  • 1639–1649 John Marten and Henry Brome [2]
  • 1661–1666 Thomas Caulfeild [3] and Thomas Howard (died and replaced 1665 by Sir Michael Appelyard) [2]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Charlemont was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Gorges style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Stewart
1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Stephen Ludlow style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Riley
1703 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. John Caulfeild style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. James Caulfeild
1705 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Davys
1707 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Dodington
1713 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. James Caulfeild style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Andrew Lloyd
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Humphrey May
1723 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Caulfeild
1727 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Moore
1752 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Adderley
1761 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Caulfeild style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry William Moore
1763 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Annesley Stewart [note 1]
1775 style="background-color: Template:Irish Patriot Party/meta/color" | Henry Grattan Patriot
1790 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Sheridan
1794 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Mountney Jephson
January 1798 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Viscount Caulfield [note 2]
1798 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Conyngham Plunket
1798 style="background-color: Template:Irish Patriot Party/meta/color" | Francis Dobbs Patriot
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ Succeeded as 6th Baronet in 1769
  2. ^ Also elected for Armagh County in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 500
  2. ^ a b c d Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 606.
  3. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1. p. 198.

Bibliography

  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  • 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.
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