Charlemont (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Coordinates: 54°28′05″N 6°41′02″W / 54.468°N 6.684°W / 54.468; -6.684

Charlemont
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created 1613 (1613)
Abolished 1800
Replaced by Disenfranchised

Charlemont was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Charlemont was not represented.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Charlemont was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692 Richard Gorges William Stewart
1695 Stephen Ludlow Edward Riley
1703 Hon. John Caulfeild Hon. James Caulfeild
1705 John Davys
1707 George Dodington
1713 Hon. James Caulfeild Andrew Lloyd
1715 Humphrey May
1723 John Caulfeild
1727 John Moore
1752 Thomas Adderley
1761 Francis Caulfeild Henry William Moore
1763 Annesley Stewart [note 1]
1775 Henry Grattan
1790 Richard Sheridan
1794 Richard Mountney Jephson
January 1798 Viscount Caulfield [note 2]
1798 William Conyngham Plunket
1798 Francis Dobbs
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes

  1. Succeeded as 6th Baronet in 1769
  2. Also elected for Armagh County in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

  1. O'Hart (2007), p. 500

Bibliography

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