County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

County Roscommon
Type:	county
County:	County Roscommon
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Seats:	2
Next:	Roscommon

County Roscommon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Members of Parliament

• 1585 Sir Richard Bingham and Thomas Dillon^[1]
• 1613–1615 Sir John King^[2] and Sir Oliver St John^[1]
• 1634–1635 Sir Lucas Dillon^[1]
• 1639–1649 Sir Lucas Dillon and Henry (or Geoffrey) Dillon and Robert King^[1]
• 1654 (Protectorate Parliament) Sir Robert King
• 1657 (Protectorate Parliament) James King
• 1661 April–December Sir Charles Coote (replaced 1662 by George Lane) and Richard Jones.

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Charles Kelly
1692		Sir Robert King, 1st Bt			George St George^[3]	<	-- party -->
1703		Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt	<				-- party -->
November 1713					James Donnellan
1713					Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
1715					Sir John King, 2nd Bt
1721					Arthur French
1727						<	-- party -->
1730		Nicholas Mahon
1735		Edward Crofton^[4]	<				-- party -->
1741						<	-- party -->
1745			<				-- party -->
1761						<	-- party -->
1775		Edward Crofton^[5]	<				-- party -->
1782					Maurice Mahon
1783						<	-- party -->
1798		George King, Viscount Kingsborough
1799
1801	Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon

Notes

Notes and References

1. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 631–632.
2. Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (died 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
3. from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
4. from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
5. from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt