Fore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Fore
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Westmeath
Borough	Fore
()–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fore was represented with two members. ^[1]

Members of Parliament

• 1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent) ^[2]
• 1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe)
• 1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham ^[3]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Nugent			Christopher Nugent
1692		John Adams			James Nugent
1695		Walter Pollard			Thomas Smith
1713		Viscount Tamworth			Denis Kelly
1715		William Smyth			Patrick Fox
November 1727		Robert Perceval			Walter Nugent
December 1727					William Handcock
1741					Richard Malone
1759					Lord Delvin
1761		Godfrey Lill			John Newenham
1768		Thomas Eyre			John Armstrong
1772		Benjamin Chapman
1776		James FitzGerald			Cornelius O'Keefe
1780					Lord Delvin
1783		Gervase Parker Bushe
1790		Stephen Francis William Fremantle
1792					John Macartney
1794		Richard Magenis
January 1798		Robert Ross [note 1]			Hon. Richard Annesley [note 2]
March 1798		Cromwell Price			Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt
1798		John Staunton Rochfort
1800					Thomas Burgh
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Old Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Blessington in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
2. McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 636.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   978-0-7884-1927-0.
• 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.