Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Trim was a constituency and rotten borough in Trim, County Meath, represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Trim
Former constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Members of Parliament

  • 1560 John Parker and Patrick Martell [1]
  • 1585 Moses Hamon and Thomas Gwyre [1]
  • 1613–1615 Sir Thomas Ashe and Roger Jones[1]
  • 1634–1635 Robert, Lord Dillon and Valerian Weasley[1]
  • 1639–1649 Robert, Lord Dillon (elevated to peerage and replaced by James Whyte. Whyte died and was replaced 1643 by Thomas Trafford) and Patrick Barnewall of Kilbrew (expelled and replaced 1642 by George Peasley. Peasley died and was replaced 1642 by Thomas Coote)[1]
  • 1661–1666 Sir Thomas Gifford, 1st Baronet (died and replaced 1662 by Henry Whitfield) and Alexander Jephson (Jephson executed July 1663. Replaced 1663 by Arthur Dillon)[2]

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Nicholas Cusacke Walter Nangle
1692 Stafford Lightbourne Garret Wesley
1695 William Napper
1697 Robert Johnson
1703 James Napper
1709 John Bligh
1713 Richard Ashe Thomas Jones
1715 John Perceval John Keating
1717 Robert Perceval
1719 Thomas Carter
1727 Garret Wesley Richard Ashe
1728 John Wade
1729 Richard Wesley
1735 Joseph Ashe
1747 Chichester Fortescue
1757 Hon. Garret Wesley
1758 William Francis Crosbie
1761 Robert Perceval John Pomeroy
1768 Thomas Fortescue
1780 Richard Wesley, Viscount Wellesley
1781 William Arthur Crosbie
1783 Hon. William Wesley [3]
1790 Hon. Arthur Wellesley
1791 Hon. Clotworthy Taylor
February 1795 Hon. Henry Wellesley
1795 William Arthur Crosbie
1798 Sir Chichester Fortescue
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  2. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 628.
  3. from 1789 Hon. William Wellesley-Pole

References

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