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Charlemont | |
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Former
borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Armagh |
Borough | Charlemont |
1613 | –1801|
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Charlemont was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1613 to 1800.
It represented Charlemont, County Armagh, an important military post since the founding of Charlemont Fort in 1602.
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Charlemont was not represented. [1] It was disenfranchised under the Acts of Union 1800.
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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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 [a] | |||||
1775 | Henry Grattan | Patriot | ||||
1790 | Richard Sheridan | |||||
1794 | Richard Mountney Jephson | |||||
January 1798 | Viscount Caulfield [b] | |||||
1798 | William Conyngham Plunket | |||||
1798 | Francis Dobbs | Patriot | ||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
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