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Philipstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Philipstown
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyKing's County
BoroughPhilipstown (now Daingean)
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Philipstown in King's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The town was later renamed Daingean in 1922.

Members of Parliament

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Election First member First party Second member Second party
1585 John Freman Edward Williams[1]
1613 Colley Philips Robert Leicester[1]
1634 Robert Leicester Thomas Moore[2]
1639 John Moore Simon Digby[1]
1661 Dudley Colley Sir George Blundell[3]
1692 Peter Purefoy Duke Giffard
1695 Robert Peppard
1698 John Lovett
1703 George Monck John Moore
November 1713 John Forster James Peppard
1713 William Purefoy
1715 William Tichborne James Forth
1717 William Molesworth
1727 Robert Adair
1737 Boleyn Whitney
1759 Viscount Belfield
May 1761 Robert Rochford
1761 Duke Tyrrell
1768 Richard Rochfort-Mervyn
1769 Duke Tyrrell
1776 John Handcock Hugh Carleton
1783 John Toler Henry Cope
1790 William Sankey Arthur O'Connor Patriot/Whig
1795 John Longfield
1798 Francis Knox Robert Crowe
1800 Robert Johnson James Mahon
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

References

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  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Brid (1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641". TARA - Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  2. ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
  3. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 622.