Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency) explained

County Westmeath
Type:	county
Region:	Ireland
County:	County Westmeath
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1801
Abolished:	1885
Seats:	2
Previous:	County Westmeath (IHC)
Next:	North Westmeath and South Westmeath
Year2:	1918
Abolished2:	1922
Seats2:	1
Previous2:	North Westmeath and South Westmeath
Next2:	Longford–Westmeath (Dáil Éireann)

County Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised County Westmeath, except for the parliamentary borough of Athlone 1801–1885.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1801–1885

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		William Smyth^[1]			Gustavus Hume Rochfort^[2]	Tory^[3]
1808, 27 February		Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham	Tory
1812, 24 October						Tory
1824, 3 March					Robert Smyth	Tory
1826, 22 June		Gustavus Rochfort	Tory		Hugh Morgan Tuite	Whig
1830, 12 August					Sir Montagu Chapman, Bt	Whig^[4]
1832, 20 December		Sir Richard Nagle, Bt^[5]	Repeal Association
1841, 12 July			Whig^[6]		Benjamin Chapman	Whig
1847, 10 August		William Henry Magan <	-- 1820 to c Sep 1861 -->	Repeal Association			Whig^[7] ^[8] ^[9]
1852, 22 July			Ind. Irish			Ind. Irish
1857, 3 April			Whig^[10]		Sir Richard Levinge, Bt. <	-- 1 Nov 1811 to 28 Sep 1884 -->	Ind. Irish
1859, 10 May		William Pollard-Urquhart <	-- 1815 to c May 1871 -->	Liberal			Liberal
1865, 20 July					Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent (later Baron Greville) <	-- 11 Feb 1841 to 2 Dec 1910 -->	Liberal
1871, 17 July		Patrick James Smyth <		-- 1823 to 12 Jan 1885 -->		Home Rule
1874, 13 February					Home Rule
1880, 13 April		Timothy Daniel Sullivan <	-- 29 May 1827 to 31 Mar 1914 -->	Parnellite Home Rule League}}		Henry Joseph Gill <	-- born 1836 -->	Parnellite Home Rule League}}
Oct 1882			Irish Parliamentary		Irish Parliamentary
1883, 27 February						Irish Parliamentary
1885	Constituency abolished: see North Westmeath and South Westmeath

MPs 1918–1922

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Laurence Ginnell	Sinn Féin
1922		constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1860s

Greville-Nugent was appointed a Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria, requiring a by-election.

Elections in the 1870s

Pollard-Urquhart's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1880s

Gill resigned, causing a by-election.

Election in the 1910s

References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Book: Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922. Brian M.. Walker. Royal Irish Academy. 1978. Dublin. 0901714127.

Notes and References

1. Resigned, 1808
2. Died in office, 1824
3. Book: Smith. Henry Stooks. The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections. 1842. Simpkin, Marshall & Company. 242–243. Second. 14 October 2018 . .
4. Book: Edward. Churton. Edward Churton. The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer. 1838. 40–41. . 25 August 2019.
5. Re-elected as a candidate of a Whig Party/Repeal Association electoral pact, in 1835 and 1837.
6. Book: The Spectator, Volume 19 . 1846 . 1205 . . 25 August 2019.
7. News: Elections . 14 October 2018 . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 11 August 1847 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
8. News: Westmeath . 14 October 2018 . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 28 July 1847 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
9. News: The New Parliament . 14 October 2018 . Lincolnshire Gazette . 20 August 1847 . 3 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .
10. News: Dublin Weekly Nation . 14 October 2018 . 21 March 1857 . 5 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription .