Jamestown (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Jamestown was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. It took its name from Jamestown, County Leitrim.

Jamestown
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1622 (1622)
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

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

Jamestown was a small village containing approximately 48 houses.[2]

Members of Parliament, 1622–1801

• 1634–1635 Charles Coote jnr and Sir William Anderson [3]
• 1639–1649 Sir John Giffard and Sir Francis Hamilton [3]
• 1661–1666 Sir Robert Meredith [4] and Sir William Dixon [5]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Alexander Mac Donnell			William Shanley
1692		John Mahon			Robert Smith
1695					Edmond Reynell
1703					John King
1709		Gilbert King
1715					Hon. Algernon Coote
1721		Richard Geering			John King
1727		Robert French
1737					Gilbert King
1745		Richard Liddell
1747		John Gore
1761		Roger Palmer			Edward Loftus
1768		James Browne			John FitzGibbon
1776		Viscount Westport			Richard Martin
1781		John Hall
1783		Sir Francis Hutchinson			Henry Bruen
1790		Arthur Wolfe			Henry Wood
1796					Robert Edward King [note 1]
1798		Gilbert King			John King
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1797

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 503
2. Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 24
3. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
4. "The Irish merediths". Retrieved 9 June 2019.
5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 623.

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 Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.