Queen's County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Queen's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The county was known as County Laois from 1922.

Queen's County
Former county constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Local government in provQueen's County
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byQueen's County

Members of Parliament

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  • 1585 Warham St Leger and Robert Harpole[1]
  • 1613–1615 Sir Robert Pigott and Sir Henry Power[1]
  • 1634–1635 John Pigott and Sir Piers Crosby[1]
  • 1639–1649 John Pigott (died and replaced in 1646 by Francis Barrington) and Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet (Coote died and replaced 1642 by George Graham. Graham died and replaced 1642 by Terence McGrath. Mcgrath died and replaced 1646 by Gilbert Rawson)[2]
  • 1661–1666 Thomas Pigott and Childley Coote (Coote died and replaced 1661 by Daniel Hutchinson)[2]

1689–1801

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Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Sir Patrick Trant Edmond Morres
1692 John Weaver John Weaver
1695 Robert Warneford
1703 Dudley Cosby
1713 Richard FitzPatrick
1715 Ephraim Dawson
1729 Richard Warburton
1747 George Evans
1761 William Dawson William Pole
1768 John Dawson[3]
1776 Charles Coote
1779 John Warburton
1783 Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt
1790 Viscount Moore
1791 John Warburton
1798 Charles Coote
1801 Superseded by Westminster constituency of Queen's County

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c McGrath, Bríd (29 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  2. ^ a b Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
  3. ^ from 1770 Hon. John Dawson

References

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