Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

For the county constituency, see County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Roscommon was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

Roscommon
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Roscommon
Borough	Roscommon
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Members of Parliament

• 1613–1615 Maurice Smith and William Marwood^[1]
• 1634–1635 George Carr and Edward Deane^[1]
• 1639–1649 Robert Bysse^[1] and Walter Loftus (died 1641)^[2]
• 1661–1666 Oliver Jones and William Somers^[2]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Dillon			John Kelly
1692		Hercules Davys			Henry Sandford
1695		Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt
September 1703		Robert Sandys
1703		William Westgarth
1711		David Kennedy
1713		Edward Crofton[3]
1733					William Sandford
1740		Thomas Mahon
1759					Edward Sandford
1761		Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt			Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt
1768		Nathaniel Clements			Robert Sandford
1769		Robert Tighe
1776		Henry Sandford
1783		Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Bt			George Sandford
1785		Maurice Coppinger
1790		Hon. Nathaniel Clements
1791		Henry Sandford
January 1798					Silver Oliver
1798					George Sandford
1799					William Johnson
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. McGrath, Bríd (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
2. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
3. from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt

References

• 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.