Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)

Portarlington
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	King's County Tullamore and Queen's County Leix

Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington in Queen's County now called County Laois.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1801	Frederick Trench[1]
	March 1801	William Elliot
	July 1802	Henry Brook Parnell	Whig
	December 1802	Thomas Tyrwhitt
	March 1806	John Langston
	November 1806	Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt
	1807	Hon. William Lamb	Whig
	1812	Arthur Shakespeare
	1816	Richard Sharp	Whig
	1819	David Ricardo	Whig
	1824	James Farquhar	Tory
	1830	Sir Charles Ogle, Bt	Tory
	1831	Sir William Rae, Bt	Tory
	1832	Thomas Gladstone	Conservative
	1835	George Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1847	Francis Plunkett Dunne	Liberal
	1852		Conservative
	1857	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1865	James Anthony Lawson	Liberal
	1868	Lionel Dawson-Damer	Conservative
	1880	Bernard FitzPatrick	Conservative
	1883	Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster	Conservative
	1885	constituency abolished

Elections

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See also

• Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

References

1. Trench was created a peer in 1800, and so did not take up his seat at Westminster

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)