County Roscommon
Former county constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Roscommon
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byRoscommon

County Roscommon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Members of Parliament

1689–1801

ElectionFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1689 Patriot Parliament Charles Kelly John Bourke
1692 Sir Robert King, 1st Bt George St George[3]
1703 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt
November 1713 James Donnellan
1713 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
1715 Sir John King, 2nd Bt
1721 Arthur French
1727 Sir Henry King, 3rd Bt
1730 Nicholas Mahon
1735 Edward Crofton[4]
1741 Henry Sandford
1745 John French
1761 Thomas Mahon
1775 Edward Crofton[5]
1782 Maurice Mahon
1783 Arthur French
1798 George King, Viscount Kingsborough
1799 Thomas Mahon
1801 Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. pp. 631–632.
  2. Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (died 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
  3. from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
  4. from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
  5. from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt

References

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