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Charlemont
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Armagh
BoroughCharlemont
1613 (1613) (1613 (1613))–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byDisfranchised

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.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Charlemont was not represented.[1] It was disenfranchised under the Acts of Union 1800.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

1689–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
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
Notes
  1. ^ Succeeded as 6th Baronet in 1769.
  2. ^ Also elected for County Armagh in 1798, for which he chose to sit.

References

  1. ^ O'Hart 2007, p. 500.
  2. ^ a b c d Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 606.
  3. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1. p. 198.

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