Fore (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

Fore
Type:	borough
Borough:	Fore
County:	County Westmeath
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Next:	Disfranchised

Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Fore was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

• 1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent)^[1]
• 1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe)
• 1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham^[2]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Nugent			Christopher Nugent
1692		John Adams			James Nugent
1695		Walter Pollard			Thomas Smith
1713					Denis Kelly
1715		William Smyth
November 1727			<	-- party -->
December 1727
1741
1759
1761
1768						<	-- party -->
1772
1776			<	-- party -->
1780						<	-- party -->
1783		Gervase Parker Bushe
1790			<				-- party -->
1792						<	-- party -->
1794
January 1798		Robert Ross^[3]			Hon. Richard Annesley^[4]
March 1798					Sir John Tydd, 1st Bt	<	-- party -->
1798		John Staunton Rochfort	<				-- party -->
1800
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

Bibliography

• Book: O'Hart, John . The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland . Heritage Books . II . 978-0-7884-1927-0 . 2007 .

Notes and References

1. A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. 1998. thesis. en. Brid. McGrath. 2262/77206.
2. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 636.
3. Also elected for Old Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit
4. Also elected for Blessington in 1798, for which he chose to sit