Maryborough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Maryborough
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	Queen's County
Borough	Maryborough (now Portlaoise)
–1801 (1801)
Seats	2

Maryborough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The town has been known as Portlaoise since 1929.

Members of Parliament

• 1585 Robert Gale, Thomas Lambyne and George Harvey ^[1]
• 1613–1615 Sir Adam Loftus and Alexander Barrington ^[1]
• 1634–1635 Sir Walter Crosbie, 1st Baronet and Sir William Gilbert ^[1]
• 1639–1649 Sir Nicholas White (died and replaced 1644 by Henry Gilbert) and Sir William Gilbert ^[1]
• 1661–1666 John Gilbert and George St George (sat for Leitrim and replaced 1661 by Alexander Pigott) ^[2]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		Pierce Bryan			Thady FitzPatrick
1692		St Leger Gilbert			Periam Pole
1695					John Weaver
1703					Robert Pigott
November 1713		Gerald Bourke			Edward Dodsworth
1713		Robert Pigott			William Wall
1730		Warner Westenra
1755					John Pigott
1755					Bartholomew William Gilbert
May 1761		William Gilbert			Eyre Coote
1761					John Parnell [3]
1764		Hunt Walsh
1776		Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn
1778		John Tydd
1782					Hon. Richard FitzPatrick
October 1783		Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt			Charles Henry Coote
1783		Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Bt
1785		Frederick Trench
1790		Samuel Hayes
1796		Hon. John Vesey
1798		Eyre Coote			Henry Parnell
1800		Edward Dunne
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
2. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
3. from 1766 Sir John Parnell, 1st 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.