| Fore | |
|---|---|
| Former
borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Westmeath |
| Borough | Fore |
| –1801 | |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fore was represented with two members. [1]
Members of Parliament
- 1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent) [2]
- 1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe)
- 1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham [3]
1689–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | John Nugent | Christopher Nugent | ||||
| 1692 | John Adams | James Nugent | ||||
| 1695 | Walter Pollard | Thomas Smith | ||||
| 1713 | Viscount Tamworth | Denis Kelly | ||||
| 1715 | William Smyth | Patrick Fox | ||||
| November 1727 | Robert Perceval | Walter Nugent | ||||
| December 1727 | William Handcock | |||||
| 1741 | Richard Malone | |||||
| 1759 | Lord Delvin | |||||
| 1761 | Godfrey Lill | John Newenham | ||||
| 1768 | Thomas Eyre | John Armstrong | ||||
| 1772 | Benjamin Chapman | |||||
| 1776 | James FitzGerald | Cornelius O'Keefe | ||||
| 1780 | Lord Delvin | |||||
| 1783 | Gervase Parker Bushe | |||||
| 1790 | Stephen Francis William Fremantle | |||||
| 1792 | John Macartney | |||||
| 1794 | Richard Magenis | |||||
| January 1798 | Robert Ross [note 1] | Hon. Richard Annesley [note 2] | ||||
| March 1798 | Cromwell Price | Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt | ||||
| 1798 | John Staunton Rochfort | |||||
| 1800 | Thomas Burgh | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
Notes
- ^ Also elected for Old Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
- ^ Also elected for Blessington in 1798, for which he chose to sit
References
- ^ O'Hart 2007, p. 504.
- ^ McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl: 2262/77206.
- ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 636.
Bibliography
- O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
