Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Portarlington Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1801 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | One |
Portarlington was a rotten borough and is a former United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801.
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This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Portarlington in Queen's County now called County Laois.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1801 | Frederick Trench | ||
| Mar. 1801 | William Elliot | ||
| Jul. 1802 | Henry Brook Parnell | Whig | |
| Dec. 1802 | Thomas Tyrwhitt | ||
| Mar. 1806 | John Langston | ||
| Nov. 1806 | Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt | ||
| 1807 | Hon. William Lamb | Whig | |
| 1812 | Arthur Shakespeare | ||
| 1816 | Richard Sharp | ||
| 1819 | David Ricardo | Whig | |
| 1824 | James Farquhar | Tory | |
| 1830 | Sir Charles Ogle, Bt | Tory | |
| 1831 | Sir William Rae, Bt | Tory | |
| 1832 | Thomas Gladstone | Conservative | |
| 1835 | George Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1847 | Francis Plunket Dunne | Liberal | |
| 1852 | Conservative | ||
| 1857 | Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1865 | James Anthony Lawson | Liberal | |
| 1868 | Lionel Dawson-Damer | Conservative | |
| 1880 | Bernard FitzPatrick | Conservative | |
| 1883 | Robert Abraham Brewster French-Brewster | Conservative | |
| 1885 | constituency abolished | ||
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[edit] See also
[edit] 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)
- Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
