Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Roscommon
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Roscommon
Borough Roscommon
–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

Roscommon was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

Contents

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1689 John DillonJohn Kelly
1692 Hercules Davys Henry Sandford
1695 Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt
September 1703 Robert Sandys
1703 William Westgarth
1711 David Kennedy
1713 Edward Crofton [3]
1733 William Sandford
1740 Thomas Mahon
1759 Edward Sandford
1761 Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt
1768 Nathaniel Clements Robert Sandford
1769 Robert Tighe
1776 Henry Sandford
1783 Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Bt George Sandford
1785 Maurice Coppinger
1790 Hon. Nathaniel Clements
1791 Henry Sandford
January 1798 Silver Oliver
1798 George Sandford
1799 William Johnson
1801Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 McGrath, Bríd (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. 1 2 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
  3. from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt

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