Roscommon County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Roscommon County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Roscommon County
Former County constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Replaced byRoscommon

Members of Parliament

  • 1585 Sir Richard Bingham and Thomas Dillon [1]
  • 1613–1615 Sir John King [2] and Sir Oliver St John [1]
  • 1634–1635 Sir Lucas Dillon [3]
  • 1639–1649 Sir Lucas Dillon and Henry (or Geoffrey) Dillon and Robert King[1]
  • 1654 (Protectorate Parliament) Robert King
  • 1657 (Protectorate Parliament) James King
  • 1661 April-December Charles Coote, 2nd Earl of Mountrath. (Replaced 1662 by George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough) and Richard Jones.

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Charles Kelly John Bourke
1692 Sir Robert King, 1st Bt George St George [4]
1703 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt
November 1713 James Donnellan
1713 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
1715 Sir John King, 2nd Bt
1721 Arthur French
1727 Sir Henry King, 3rd Bt
1730 Nicholas Mahon
1735 Edward Crofton [5]
1741 Henry Sandford
1745 John French
1761 Thomas Mahon
1775 Edward Crofton [6]
1782 Maurice Mahon
1783 Arthur French
1798 George King, Viscount Kingsborough
1799 Thomas Mahon
1801 Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon

Notes

  1. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 632.
  2. Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (d. 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
  3. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  4. from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
  5. from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
  6. from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt

References

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