Queen's County (Parliament of Ireland 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.

Queen's County
Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Local government in prov	Queen's County
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Queen's County

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

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Sir Patrick Trant			Edmond Morres
1692		John Weaver			John Weaver
1695		Robert Warneford
1703		Dudley Cosby
1713					Richard FitzPatrick
1715					Ephraim Dawson
1729		Richard Warburton
1747					George Evans
1761		William Dawson			William Pole
1768		John Dawson[3]
1776					Charles Coote
1779		John Warburton
1783					Sir John Parnell, 2nd Bt
1790		Viscount Moore
1791		John Warburton
1798		Charles Coote
1801		Superseded by Westminster constituency of Queen's County

Notes

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. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 630.
3. from 1770 Hon. John Dawson

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.