Trim_(Parliament_of_Ireland_constituency)

Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

Trim was a constituency and rotten borough in Trim, County Meath, represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

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Members of Parliament

  • 1560 John Parker and Patrick Martell
  • 1585 Moses Hamon and Thomas Gwyre
  • 1613–1615 Sir Thomas Ashe and Roger Jones
  • 1634–1635 Robert, Lord Dillon and Valerian Weasley[1]
  • 1639–1649 Robert, Lord Dillon (elevated to the peerage and replaced by James Whyte. Whyte died and was replaced 1643 by Thomas Trafford) and Patrick Barnewall of Kilbrew (expelled and replaced 1642 by George Peasley. Peasley died and was replaced 1642 by Thomas Coote)
  • 1661–1666 Sir Thomas Gifford, 1st Baronet (died and replaced 1662 by Henry Whitfield) and Alexander Jephson (Jephson executed July 1663. Replaced 1663 by Arthur Dillon)[2]

1689–1801

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Notes

  1. [1]
    House of Commons 1878, p. 628. "1634 / 3 July / Robert Lord Dillon, Baron of Kilkenny West. / Moymet / ditto. [Trim Borough]"
  2. [2]
    Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 628.
  3. [3]
    from 1789 Hon. William Wellesley-Pole

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