Ratoath (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

Ratoath was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This constituency was the manor of Ratoath in County Meath.

Following the Act of Union 1800 the constituency was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland to 1800.

1692–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1692 Edward Corker Robert Gorges
1695 Thomas Molyneux
September 1703 Edward Forde Richard Gorges
1703 Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Bt
1705 George Lowther
1713 Richard Gorges
1716 Hon. William St Lawrence
1727 Charles Hamilton Edward Lovett Pearce [1]
1734 Rowley Hill
1737 Gorges Lowther
1753 Marcus Lowther-Crofton [2]
1761 George Lowther John Curtis
1768 John Cramer
1769 William Irvine Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt
1776 John Forbes George Putland
1783 Peter Metge Arthur Forbes
1784 John Metge
1789 Alexander Hamilton
1790 William Irvine Gorges Lowther
January 1798 James Moore O'Donnell
1798 James Cane
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

  1. from 1732 Sir Edward Pearce
  2. from 1758 Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt

Elections

References

See also