Queen's County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Queen's County
Former county constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Local government in prov Queen's County
–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced by Queen's County

Queen's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The county was known as County Laois from 1922.

Contents

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1689 Sir Patrick Trant Edmond Morres
1692 John Weaver John Weaver
1695 Robert Warneford
1703 Dudley Cosby
1713 Richard FitzPatrick
1715 Ephraim Dawson
1729 Richard Warburton
1747 George Evans
1761 William Dawson William Pole
1768 John Dawson [3]
1776 Charles Coote
1779 John Warburton
1783 Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt
1790 Viscount Moore
1791 John Warburton
1798 Charles Coote
1801Superseded by Westminster constituency of Queen's County

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 McGrath, Bríd (29 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin.
  2. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
  3. from 1770 Hon. John Dawson

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