Kilbeggan (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Kilbeggan
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Westmeath
Borough	Kilbeggan
1612 (1612)–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Kilbeggan was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

History

The borough was incorporated by James I by a Charter dated 27 February 1612. The charter conferred upon the elected portreeve and burgesses the right to return two Members to Parliament. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Kilbeggan was represented by two members. ^[1] Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

A sum of £15,000 was paid at the 1801 Union, to Gustavus Lambart as compensation for the loss of the elective franchise. ^[2]

Members of Parliament, 1612–1801

• 1613–1615 Sir Robert Newcomen and Beverly Newcomen ^[3]
• 1634–1635 Edward Keating ^[4] and Robert Birley ^[3]
• 1639–1649 Sir Robert Forth and John Warren (Warren died and was replaced in 1647 by Richard Lambart. ^[3]
• 1661–1666 Walter Lambert (died and replaced 1665 by Francis Willoughby) and Oliver Lambert of Painstown ^[5]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Bryan Geoghegan			Charles Geoghegan
1692		Oliver Lambart			John Wakeley
1695					Charles Lambart
1703		Patrick Fox
1713		Brabazon Newcomen			John Preston [note 1]
1715					William FitzHerbert
1715					Charles Lambart
1727		Charles Lambart
1741		Gustavus Lambart
1753					Hamilton Lambart
1761					Thomas Tipping
1768					Charles Lambart
1776		Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Bt
1783		Henry Flood	Patriot		John Philpot Curran	Patriot
1790		Thomas Burgh			William Sherlock
1798		Sir Francis Hopkins, 1st Bt			Gustavus Lambart
1800		Thomas Goold
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for County Meath in 1713, for which he chose to sit.

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
2. "The Midland Boroughs in the 1830s – Kilbeggan". irishmidlandsancestry.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012.
3. McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
4. Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
5. 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.