Mullingar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Mullingar

Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
County| County Westmeath
Borough| Mullingar
–1801 (1801)
Replaced by| Disfranchised

Mullingar was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

## Borough

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The constituency represented the parliamentary borough of Mullingar.

## Members of Parliament

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* 1560 Nicholas Casey and James Reling[1]
* 1585 Richard Casey and Redmond Pettit[1]
* 1613–1615: Nicholas Casey and John Hammond[1]
* 1634–1635: Edward Pettit and James Christabel[2]
* 1639–1649: Edward Pettit (died and replaced 1642 by Sir Richard Kennedy, 2nd Baronet) and Alexander Hope (died and replaced 1642 by Oliver Wheeler)[1]
* 1661–1666: Arthur Forbes, 1st Earl of Granard (sat for Tyrone and replaced by Sir Robert Newcomen) and James Leighe[1]

### 1689–1801

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Election | First MP | Second MP

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1689 Patriot Parliament |  | Garrett (or Gerald) Dillon |  |  | Edmond Nugent  |
1692  |  | Roger Moore |  |  | Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Bt |
1695  |  | Sir Patrick Dun |
1703  |  | Henry Edgeworth |
1713 |  | Thomas Bellew |  |  | Charles Melville |
1715  |  | Eustace Budgell |
1727  |  | Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Bt |  |  | John Rochfort |
1749  |  | George Forbes, Viscount Forbes |
1761 |  | Hon. John Forbes |
1765  |  | Richard Steele[3] |
1768  |  | Ralph Fetherston[4] |
1769  |  | John Scott |
1776  |  | Richard Underwood |
1779  |  | Sir Skeffington Smyth, 1st Bt |
1783 |  | Francis Hardy |  |  | John Doyle |
1799  |  | Luke Fox |
1801  |  | Constituency disenfranchised

### Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (PhD thesis). hdl:2262/77206.
2. ^ Kearney, Hugh. Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism. p. 232.
3. ^ from 1768 Sir Richard Steele, 1st Bt
4. ^ Also returned for St. Johnstown, Co. Longford, for which he chose to sit

## References

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* 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.

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