King's County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

King's County
Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	King's County
()–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	King's County (UKHC)

King's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The county was renamed as County Offaly after Irish independence.

Members of Parliament

• 1585: Sir George Bouchier and Henry Waring ^[1]
• 1613–1615: Adam Loftus and Sir Francis Rushe ^[1]
• 1634–1635: Sir William Colley and Terence Coghlan ^[2]
• 1639–1649: John Coughlan and Sir William Parsons of Birr ^[3]
• 1661–1666: John Weaver and Henry Lestrange ^[1]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Heward Oxburgh			Owen Carrol
1692		Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Bt			Sir William Parsons [4]
1707		William Purefoy
1713		James Forth			John Moore
1715		William Purefoy			Sir William Parsons, 2nd Bt
1727		Colley Lyons
1741		Trevor Lloyd			Sir Laurence Parsons, 3rd Bt
1748		Henry Lyons
1757					Sir William Parsons, 4th Bt
1768		John Lloyd
1790		Denis Bowes Daly
1791					Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Bt	Patriot
1801	Replaced by Westminster constituency King's County

Notes

1. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 622.
2. Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
3. 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.
4. from 1698 Sir William Parsons, 2nd Bt

References

• 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.