Granard (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Granard
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Longford
Borough Granard
1679 (1679) (1679 (1679))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

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

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History

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

Members of Parliament, 1679–1801

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689Granard was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692John PercevalSir Walter Plunket
September 1703Stephen Ludlow [note 1]
1703Wentworth Harman
1713 John Parnell John Rogerson
1715James Peppard
1723 Charles Coote
1725 Robert Jocelyn
1727 James Macartney John Folliott
1761 Edmond Malone Robert Sibthorpe
1767 Gervase Parker Bushe
1768 Anthony Malone [note 2]
1769 Richard Malone
1776Thomas MaunsellJohn Kilpatrick
1780William Long Kingsman
1783 Robert Jephson George William Molyneux
1790 John Ormsby Vandeleur Thomas Pakenham Vandeleur
January 1798 Hon. George Fulke Lyttelton William Fulk Greville
1798 Ross Mahon
1800 Richard Townsend Herbert
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. Also elected for Dunleer in 1703, for which he chose to sit
  2. Also elected for County Westmeath in 1768, for which he chose to sit.

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References

  1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.

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