Thomas Allan (politician)

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Thomas Allan (1725–1798) was an Irish politician.

Allan sat in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Killybegs between 1768 and 1776. In 1773 he was appointed Commissioner for Revenue in Ireland. He then represented Naas from 1777 to 1783. Between 1778 and 1785 Allan served as Commissioner of Customs in England. [1]

Irish House of Commons lower house of the irish parliament (until 1800)

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive franchise, similar to the Unreformed House of Commons in contemporary England and Great Britain. In counties, forty-shilling freeholders were enfranchised whilst in most boroughs it was either only the members of self-electing corporations or a highly-restricted body of freemen that were able to vote for the borough's representatives. Most notably, Catholics were disqualified from sitting in the Irish parliament from 1691, even though they comprised the vast majority of the Irish population. From 1728 until 1793 they were also disfranchised. Most of the population of all religions had no vote. The vast majority of parliamentary boroughs were pocket boroughs, the private property of an aristocratic patron. When these boroughs were disfranchised under the Act of Union, the patron was awarded £15,000 compensation for each.

Killybegs was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Naas was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801. The Parliament of Ireland merged with the Parliament of Great Britain to form the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. Thereafter Naas was represented by the Members for Kildare.

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References

  1. John Beresford, The Correspondence of the Right Hon. John Beresford (Woodfall and Kinder, 1854), p.4. (Retrieved 22 February 2016).
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Richard Jones
William Gerard Hamilton
Member of Parliament for Killybegs
1768–1776
With: Henry Hamilton
Succeeded by
Henry Hamilton
William Burton
Preceded by
John Bourke
John Bourke
Member of Parliament for Naas
1778–1785
With: John Bourke
Succeeded by
John Bourke
Hugh Carleton