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Queen's County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Queen's County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Queen's County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. The county was known as County Laois from 1922.

Quick Facts Local government in prov, ? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801) ...

Members of Parliament

  • 1585 Warham St Leger and Robert Harpole[1]
  • 1613–1615 Sir Robert Pigott and Sir Henry Power[1]
  • 1634–1635 John Pigott and Sir Piers Crosby[1]
  • 1639–1649 John Pigott (died and replaced in 1646 by Francis Barrington) and Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet (Coote died and replaced 1642 by George Graham. Graham died and replaced 1642 by Terence McGrath. Mcgrath died and replaced 1646 by Gilbert Rawson)[2]
  • 1661–1666 Thomas Pigott and Childley Coote (Coote died and replaced 1661 by Daniel Hutchinson)[2]

1689–1801

More information Election, First member ...

Notes

  1. [1]
    McGrath, Bríd (29 May 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  2. [2]
    Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
  3. [3]
    from 1770 Hon. John Dawson

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