Kilbeggan (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Kilbeggan was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800. History The borough was incorporated by James I by a Charter dated 27 February 1612. The charter conferred upon the elected portreeve and burgesses the right to return two Members to Parliament. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Kilbeggan was represented by two members. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote. A sum of £15,000 was paid at the 1801 Union, to Gustavus Lambart as compensation for the loss of the elective franchise. Members of Parliament, 1612–1801 *1613–1615 Sir Robert Newcomen and Beverly Newcomen *1634–1635 Edward Keating and Robert Birley *1639–1649 Sir Robert Forth Sir Robert Forth (c.1600-c.1663) was an Irish statesman of the seventeenth century, and an influential figure in the political crisis of 1640–41. He sat in the Irish House of Commons and was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland.Perceval ...
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Counties Of Ireland
The counties of Ireland (Irish language, Irish: ) are historic administrative divisions of the island into thirty-two units. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English (Ireland), Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level. Upon the partition of Ireland in 1921, six of the traditional counties became part of Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland, Counties of Northern Ireland, counties ceased to be longer used for local government in 1973; Local government in Northern Ireland, districts are instead used. In the Republic of Ireland, some counties have been split resulting in the creation of new counties: there are currently 26 counties, 3 cities and 2 cities and counties that demarcate areas of local government in the Republic of Ireland, local government in the Republic. Terminology The word "county" has come to be used in different senses for di ...
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John Preston (politician)
John Preston may refer to: Politicians *John Preston (died 1434), Member of Parliament (MP) for Sussex * John Preston (c. 1578 – c. 1642), MP for Lancaster * John Preston (alderman) (1611–1686), mayor of Dublin in 1654 * John Preston (died 1732), MP for County Meath * John Preston (died 1753), MP for Navan * John Preston (died 1781), MP for Navan *John Preston, 1st Baron Tara (1764–1821), Irish politician *John B. Preston, first Surveyor General of the Oregon Territory Fiction *John Preston, a fictional character in the 2002 feature film '' Equilibrium'' * John James Preston, a fictional character in the American TV series ''Sex and the City'' *''Alias John Preston'', a 1955 British horror film Military *John S. Preston (1809–1881), American Civil War general * John Preston (Medal of Honor) (1841–1885), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * John F. Preston, United States Army officer, Inspector General *John Thomas Lewis Preston, American educator ...
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John Philpot Curran
John Philpot Curran (24 July 1750 – 14 October 1817) was an Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge, who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He was renowned for his representation in 1780 of Father Neale, a Catholic priest horsewhipped by the Anglo-Irish Lord, Viscount Doneraile, and in the 1790s for his defence of United Irishmen facing capital charges of sedition and treason. His courtroom speeches were widely admired. Lord Byron was to say of Curran, "I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written". Karl Marx described him as the greatest "people's advocate" of the eighteenth century. Early life Born in Newmarket, County Cork, he was the eldest of five children of James Curran, seneschal of the Newmarket manor court, and Sarah, née Philpot. The Curran family were said to have originally been named Curwen, their ancestor having come from Cumberland as a soldier under Cromwell during the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland and had origi ...
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Irish Patriot Party
The Irish Patriot Party was the name of a number of different political groupings in Ireland throughout the 18th century. They were primarily supportive of Whig concepts of personal liberty combined with an Irish identity that rejected full independence, but advocated strong self-government within the British Empire. Due to the discriminatory penal laws, the Irish Parliament at the time was exclusively Anglican Protestant. Their main achievement was the Constitution of 1782, which gave Ireland legislative independence. Early Irish Patriots In 1689 a short-lived "Patriot Parliament" had sat in Dublin before James II, and briefly obtained ''de facto'' legislative independence, while ultimately subject to the English monarchy. The parliament's membership mostly consisted of land-owning Roman Catholic Jacobites who lost the ensuing War of the Grand Alliance in 1689–91. The name was then used from the 1720s to describe Irish supporters of the British Whig party, specifically th ...
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Henry Flood
Henry Flood (1732 – 2 December 1791), Irish statesman, son of Warden Flood, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became proficient in the classics. He was a leading Irish politician, and a friend of Henry Grattan, the leader of the Irish Patriot Party. He became an object of intense public interest in 1770, when he was put on trial for murder, after killing a political rival in a duel. Henry married Lady Frances Beresford, daughter of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, and Lady Catherine Power, who brought him a large fortune. Irish Parliament In 1759, he entered the Irish parliament as member for Kilkenny County, a seat he held until 1761. There was at that time no party in the Irish House of Commons that could truly be called national, and until a few years before there had been none that deserved even the name of opposition. The Irish parliament was still con ...
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Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (1 August 1743 – 22 April 1795) was an Anglo-Irish politician in the Irish House of Commons. Johnston was High Sheriff of Down in 1765, High Sheriff of Armagh in 1771 and was made a baronet, of Gilford in the Baronetage of Ireland on 27 July 1772. Between 1776 and 1783 he was the Member of Parliament for Kilbeggan, before representing Blessington from 1783 until his death in 1795.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.99 (Retrieved 21 November 2022). He was succeeded in his title by his son, William. In March 1772, Johnston was the target of violent protests by the Hearts of Steel, who attacked his castle at Gilford, County Down Gilford is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. The village sits on the River Bann between the towns of Banbridge, Tandragee and Portadown. It covers the townlands of Loughans, Ballymacanallen and Drumaran. It ha ...
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Charles Lambart (1746–1785)
Charles Lambart may refer to: *Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (1600-1660), MP for Bossiney * Charles Lambart, 3rd Earl of Cavan (1649-1702) *Charles Lambart (died 1753), MP for Kilbeggan (Parliament of Ireland constituency) and Cavan See also *Charles Lambert (other) Charles Lambert may refer to: *Charles Lambert (economist), Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Agriculture Marketing and Regulatory Programs *Charles Lambert de Sainte-Croix (1827–1889), French politician *Charles Saint La ...

Thomas Tipping (died 1776)
Thomas Tipping may refer to: * Thomas Tipping (knight) (1614–1693), Parliamentarian during the English Civil War * Sir Thomas Tipping, 1st Baronet (1653–1718), English baronet and Member of Parliament * Thomas Tipping (died 1776), MP for Louth (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Louth was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the ...

1761 Irish General Election
The 1761 Irish general election1 was the first general election to the Irish House of Commons in over thirty years, with the previous general election having taken place in 1727. Despite few constituencies hosting electoral contests, the election was significant due to it taking place in a time of rising political awareness within the Irish public, with many being drawn to the cause of patriotism. Background Unlike England, which had passed the Triennial Acts in 1694, thereby requiring elections every 3 years (and following 1716 every 7 years), Ireland had passed no similar pieces of legislation. As a result, the only limit on a term of parliament was the life of the monarch. This did not mean that the Commons had the same membership between 1727 and 1761, and numerous vacancies had occurred over the years, which had in turn been filled through by-elections. By the late 1750s the lack of frequent elections was becoming a contested issue, and the issue was taken up by the patrio ...
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Hamilton Lambart
Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilton (other), several Scottish, Irish and British peers, and some members of the judiciary, who may be referred to simply as ''Hamilton'' ** Clan Hamilton, an ancient Scottish kindred * Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * Lewis Hamilton, a British Formula One driver * William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician for whom ''Hamiltonian mechanics'' is named * Hamílton (footballer) (born 1980), Togolese footballer Places Australia * Hamilton, New South Wales, suburb of Newcastle * Hamilton Hill, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Hamilton, South Australia * Hamilton, Tasmania * Hamilton, Victoria ...
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Gustavus Lambart (died 1782)
Gustavus may refer to: *Gustavus, Alaska, a small community located on the edge of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve *Gustavus Adolphus College, a private liberal arts college in southern Minnesota *Gustavus (name), a given name **Gustavus, the Latin name given to several Swedish kings: *** Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa) ***Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Gustav II Adolf) *** Gustavus III of Sweden *** Gustaf IV Adolf of Sweden ***Gustaf V of Sweden (1858-1950) ***Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973) * Operation Gustavus, World War II British commando operation in Malaya * Gustavus (horse) See also * Gustav (other) * Gusty (other) Gusty may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Gusty Bausch (born 1980), Luxembourgian cyclo-cross cyclist * Gusty Spence (1933–2011), a leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force * Grégoire Laurent (1906–1985), Luxembourgian boxer also known as "Gusty" * G ...

Charles Lambart (1703–1740)
Charles Lambart may refer to: *Charles Lambart, 1st Earl of Cavan (1600-1660), MP for Bossiney *Charles Lambart, 3rd Earl of Cavan (1649-1702) *Charles Lambart (died 1753), MP for Kilbeggan (Parliament of Ireland constituency) and Cavan See also *Charles Lambert (other) Charles Lambert may refer to: *Charles Lambert (economist), Deputy Under Secretary for the United States Department of Agriculture Marketing and Regulatory Programs *Charles Lambert de Sainte-Croix (1827–1889), French politician *Charles Saint La ...