Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

For the county constituency, see County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Roscommon
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Roscommon
BoroughRoscommon
? (?) (? (?))–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.

Members of Parliament

  • 1613–1615 Maurice Smith and William Marwood[1]
  • 1634–1635 George Carr and Edward Deane[1]
  • 1639–1649 Robert Bysse[1] and Walter Loftus (died 1641)[2]
  • 1661–1666 Oliver Jones and William Somers[2]

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament John Dillon John 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
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Bríd (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
  2. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
  3. ^ from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt

References