Jamestown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Jamestown was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. It took its name from Jamestown, County Leitrim.

Jamestown
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Leitrim
BoroughJamestown
1622 (1622) (1622 (1622))–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Jamestown was represented with two members.[1]

Jamestown was a small village containing approximately 48 houses.[2]

Members of Parliament, 1622–1801
  • 1634–1635 Charles Coote jnr and Sir William Anderson[3]
  • 1639–1649 Sir John Giffard and Sir Francis Hamilton[3]
  • 1661–1666 Sir Robert Meredith[4] and Sir William Dixon[5]

1689–1801
ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Alexander Mac Donnell William Shanley
1692 John Mahon Robert Smith
1695 Edmond Reynell
1703 John King
1709 Gilbert King
1715 Hon. Algernon Coote
1721 Richard Geering John King
1727 Robert French
1737 Gilbert King
1745 Richard Liddell
1747 John Gore
1761 Roger Palmer Edward Loftus
1768 James Browne John FitzGibbon
1776 Viscount Westport Richard Martin Patriot
1781 John Hall
1783 Sir Francis Hutchinson Henry Bruen
1790 Arthur Wolfe Henry Wood
1796 Robert Edward King[note 1]
1798 Gilbert King John King
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes
  1. Styled as The Honourable from 1797

References
  1. O'Hart 2007, p. 503.
  2. Commons, Great Britain Parliament House of (24 October 1836). "Parliamentary Papers". H.M. Stationery Office – via Google Books.
  3. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). "A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641". hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  4. "The Irish merediths". Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 623.

Bibliography
  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

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