Dungannon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

54.503°N 6.770°W / 54.503; -6.770

Dungannon
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Tyrone
Borough	Dungannon
1613 (1613) (1613 (1613))–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Dungannon (UKHC)

Dungannon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Dungannon was represented with two members.^[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1613		Sir Garret Moore			Sir Hugh Pollerde
1634		Sir Faithful Fortescue			John Perkins
1639		John Chichester			Thomas Madden. died and repl. 1640 by Sir Phelim O'Neill
1661		Sir Arthur Chichester			Sir Thomas Bramhall
1689 Patriot Parliament		Arthur O'Neill			Patrick Donnelly
1692		John Hamilton			Sir Robert Staples, 4th Bt
1695					Thomas Knox
September 1703		Oliver St George[note 1]
1703		Edward Brice
1713		Oliver St George
1727					Charles Echlin
1731		Thomas Knox
1755					Thomas Knox
1769		John Knox
1776		Charles O'Hara
1781					William Eden
October 1783		Edmund Sexton Pery[note 2]	Patriot		Hon. Thomas Knox
1783		Lorenzo Moore
1790		Hon. John Knox			Hon. George Knox
1794		James Verner
1798					Hon. Charles Knox
1799					Richard Fortescue Sharkey
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Dungannon

Notes

1. Also elected for Carrick in 1703, for which he chose to sit.
2. Also elected for Limerick City in 1783, for which he chose to sit.

Notes

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 504.

References

• Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
• 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.