Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Trim
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County County Meath
Borough Trim
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Trim was a constituency and rotten borough in Trim, County Meath, represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Contents

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Nicholas Cusack Walter Nangle
1692 Stafford Lightbourne Garret Wesley
1695 William Napper
1697 Robert Johnson
1703 James Napper
1709 John Bligh
1713 Richard Ashe Thomas Jones
1715 John Perceval John Keating
1717 Robert Perceval
1719 Thomas Carter
1727 Garret Wesley Richard Ashe
1728 John Wade
1729 Richard Wesley
1735 Joseph Ashe
1747 Chichester Fortescue
1757 Hon. Garret Wesley
1758 William Francis Crosbie
1761 Robert Perceval John Pomeroy
1768 Thomas Fortescue
1780 Richard Wesley, Viscount Wellesley
1781 William Arthur Crosbie
1783 Hon. William Wesley [3]
1790 Hon. Arthur Wellesley
1791 Hon. Clotworthy Taylor
February 1795 Hon. Henry Wellesley
1795 William Arthur Crosbie
1798 Sir Chichester Fortescue
1801Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. House of Commons 1878, p.  628. "1634 / 3 July / Robert Lord Dillon, Baron of Kilkenny West. / Moymet / ditto. [Trim Borough]"
  2. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 628.
  3. from 1789 Hon. William Wellesley-Pole

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