Philipstown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Philipstown
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County King's County
BoroughPhilipstown (now Daingean)
–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Philipstown in King's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The town was later renamed Daingean in 1922.

Members of Parliament

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1585John FremanEdward Williams [1]
1613Colley PhilipsRobert Leicester [1]
1634Robert LeicesterThomas Moore [2]
1639John MooreSimon Digby [1]
1661 Dudley Colley Sir George Blundell [3]
1692 Peter Purefoy Duke Giffard
1695 Robert Peppard
1698 John Lovett
1703 George Monck John Moore
November 1713 John Forster James Peppard
1713 William Purefoy
1715 William Tichborne James Forth
1717 William Molesworth
1727 Robert Adair
1737 Boleyn Whitney
1759 Viscount Belfield
May 1761 Robert Rochford
1761 Duke Tyrrell
1768 Richard Rochfort-Mervyn
1769 Duke Tyrrell
1776 John Handcock Hugh Carleton
1783 John Toler Henry Cope
1790 William Sankey Arthur O'Connor Patriot/Whig
1795 John Longfield
1798 Francis Knox Robert Crowe
1800 Robert Johnson James Mahon
1801Constituency disenfranchised

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
  3. ↑ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 622.

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