Mullingar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

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

Borough

The constituency represented the parliamentary borough of Mullingar.

Members of Parliament

• 1560 Nicholas Casey and James Reling ^[1]
• 1585 Richard Casey and Redmond Pettit ^[1]
• 1613–1615: Nicholas Casey and John Hammond ^[1]
• 1634–1635: Edward Pettit and James Christabel ^[2]
• 1639–1649: Edward Pettit (died and replaced 1642 by Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet) and Alexander Hope (died and replaced 1642 by Oliver Wheeler) ^[1]
• 1661–1666: Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard (sat for Tyrone and replaced by Sir Robert Newcomen) and James Leighe ^[1]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689 Patriot Parliament		Garrett (or Gerald) Dillon			Edmond Nugent
1692		Roger Moore			Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Bt
1695					Sir Patrick Dun
1703		Henry Edgeworth
1713		Thomas Bellew			Charles Melville
1715					Eustace Budgell
1727		Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Bt			John Rochfort
1749		George Forbes, Viscount Forbes
1761					Hon. John Forbes
1765		Richard Steele [3]
1768					Ralph Fetherston [4]
1769					John Scott
1776		Richard Underwood
1779		Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt
1783		Francis Hardy			John Doyle
1799					Luke Fox
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (PhD thesis). hdl:2262/77206.
2. Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
3. from 1768 Sir Richard Steele, 1st Bt
4. Also returned for St. Johnstown, Co. Longford, for which he chose to sit

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.