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Fore (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Summary

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

FieldValue
nameFore
typeborough
boroughFore
countyCounty Westmeath
regionIreland
parliamentihc
abolished1801
nextDisfranchised

Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fore was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

  • 1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent)
  • 1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe)
  • 1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham

1689–1801

ElectionFirst MPSecond MP
1689John Nugent
1692John Adams
1695Walter Pollard
1713Viscount Tamworth
1715William Smyth
November 1727Robert Perceval
December 1727William Handcock
1741Richard Malone
1759Lord Delvin
1761Godfrey Lill
1768Thomas Eyre
1772Benjamin Chapman
1776James FitzGerald
1780Lord Delvin
1783Gervase Parker Bushe
1790Stephen Francis William Fremantle
1792John Macartney
1794Richard Magenis
January 1798Robert RossAlso elected for Old Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
March 1798Cromwell Price
1798John Staunton Rochfort
1800Thomas Burgh
1801Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

References

Bibliography

References

  1. McGrath, Brid. (1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641". [[Trinity College Dublin]].
  2. "Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2".
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