Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)
Not to be confused with Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency).
| Portarlington | |
|---|---|
|
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| 1801–1885 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | King's County Tullamore and Queen's County Leix |
Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.
Boundaries
This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington in Queen's County now called County Laois.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | Frederick Trench[1] | ||
| March 1801 | William Elliot | ||
| July 1802 | Henry Brook Parnell | Whig | |
| December 1802 | Thomas Tyrwhitt | ||
| March 1806 | John Langston | ||
| November 1806 | Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt | ||
| 1807 | Hon. William Lamb | Whig | |
| 1812 | Arthur Shakespeare | ||
| 1816 | Richard Sharp | Whig | |
| 1819 | David Ricardo | Whig | |
| 1824 | James Farquhar | Tory | |
| 1830 | Sir Charles Ogle, Bt | Tory | |
| 1831 | Sir William Rae, Bt | Tory | |
| 1832 | Thomas Gladstone | Conservative | |
| 1835 | George Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1847 | Francis Plunkett Dunne | Liberal | |
| 1852 | Conservative | ||
| 1857 | Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1865 | James Anthony Lawson | Liberal | |
| 1868 | Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1880 | Bernard FitzPatrick | Conservative | |
| 1883 | Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
Elections
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See also
References
- ↑ Trench was created a peer in 1800, and so did not take up his seat at Westminster
- The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
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