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Mullingar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Summary

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Field	Value
name	Mullingar
type	borough
borough	Mullingar
county	County Westmeath
region	Ireland
parliament	ihc
abolished	1801
next	Disfranchised

Mullingar was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

Borough

The constituency represented the parliamentary borough of Mullingar.

Members of Parliament

1560 Nicholas Casey and James Reling
1585 Richard Casey and Redmond Pettit
1613–1615: Nicholas Casey and John Hammond
1634–1635: Edward Pettit and James Christabel
1639–1649: Edward Pettit (died and replaced 1642 by Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet) and Alexander Hope (died and replaced 1642 by Oliver Wheeler)
1661–1666: Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard (sat for Tyrone and replaced by Sir Robert Newcomen) and James Leighe

1689–1801

Election	First MP	Second MP
1689 Patriot Parliament		Garrett (or Gerald) Dillon
1692		Roger Moore
1695		Sir Patrick Dun
1703		Henry Edgeworth
1713		Thomas Bellew
1715		Eustace Budgell
1727		Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Bt
1749		George Forbes, Viscount Forbes
1761		Hon. John Forbes
1765		Richard Steele
1768		Ralph Fetherston
1769		John Scott
1776		Richard Underwood
1779		Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt
1783		Francis Hardy
1799		Luke Fox
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

References

McGrath, Brid. (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641".
Kearney, Hugh. "Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism".
from 1768 Sir Richard Steele, 1st Bt
Also returned for St. Johnstown, Co. Longford, for which he chose to sit

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