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Maryborough (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Maryborough 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 House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fran ... until 1800. The town is known as Portlaoise since 1929. Members of Parliament * 1585 Robert Gale, Thomas Lambyne and George Harvey * 1613–1615 Sir Adam Loftus and Alexander Barrington * 1634–1635 Sir Walter Crosbie, 1st Baronet and Sir William Gilbert * 1639–1649 Sir Nicholas White (died and replaced 1644 by Henry Gilbert) and Sir William Gilbert * 1661–1666 John Gilbert and George St George (sat for Leitrim and replaced 1661 by Alexander Pigott) 1689–1801 Notes References * {{coord missing, County Laois Historic constituencies in County Laois Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Portlaoise 1800 disestablishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portlaoise
Portlaoise ( ), or Port Laoise (), is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is located in the Midland Region, Ireland, South Midlands in the province of Leinster. The 2016 census shows that the town's population increased by 9.5% to 22,050, which was well above the national average of 3.8%. It is the most populous and also the most densely populated town in the Midland Region, Ireland, Midland Region, which has a total population of 292,301 at the 2016 census. This also makes it the fastest growing of the top 20 largest towns and cities in Ireland. It was an important town in the medieval period, as the site of the Fort of Maryborough, a fort built by English settlers in the 16th century during the Plantations of Ireland#Early plantations (1556–1576), Plantation of Queen's County. Portlaoise is fringed by the Slieve Bloom Mountains, Slieve Bloom mountains to the west and north-west and the Great Heath of Maryborough to the east. It is notable for its architecture, engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pigott
John Pigott (c. 1550 – by 1627), of Gray's Inn, London and Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician. He was a younger son of Francis Pigott of Stratton, Bedfordshire and educated at St John’s College, Cambridge and Gray's Inn, where he was called to the bar in 1581. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bedford Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ... in 1589 and 1593 and for Bodmin in 1601. He married twice and left 2 sons and 6 daughters. References 1550s births 1620s deaths People from Buckinghamshire Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn Members of the Parliament of England for Bodmin English MPs 1589 English MPs 1593 English MPs 1601 {{17thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hayes (1743–1795)
Samuel or Sam Hayes may refer to: * Samuel E. Hayes Jr. (born 1940), former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives *Sir Samuel Hayes, 1st Baronet (1737–1807), MP for Augher and of the Hayes baronets *Sir Samuel Hayes, 2nd Baronet (1773–1827) *Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet (1840–1901) *Samuel Hayes (settler) (1641–1712), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut *Samuel Snowden Hayes (1820–1880), Illinois politician * Samuel W. Hayes (1875–1941), judge in Oklahoma See also *Samuel Hays (other) Samuel Hays may refer to: * Samuel Hays (Missouri politician), State Treasurer of Missouri from 1871 to 1873 * Samuel Hays (Pennsylvania politician) Samuel Hays (September 10, 1783July 1, 1868) was an American politician who served as a Democ ... * Samuel Ross Hay (1865–1944), American Methodist bishop {{hndis, Hayes, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Trench (MP For Maryborough)
Michael Frederick Trench (May 1746 – April 1836) was an Irish Member of Parliament, he was a barrister, and an amateur architect.Michael Frederick Trench Dictionary of Irish Architects. Biography The son of the Rev. Frederick Trench and his wife Mary Moore, he was educated at and (BA 1766) and took the in 1770–1772. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet
Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet PC (Ire) (1726 – 7 March 1785) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the son of Henry Brooke and his wife Lettice Burton, daughter of Benjamin Burton. Brooke was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1746. He was appointed High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1752, and became later Governor of County Fermanagh. In 1761, Brooke was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Fermanagh, a seat he held until 1783. Subsequently, he represented Maryborough until his death in 1785. On 3 January 1764, he was created a baronet, of Colebrooke, in the County of Fermanagh and on 15 May 1770, he was invested to the Privy Council of Ireland. Marriages and children On 6 August 1751, he married firstly Margaret Fortescue, daughter of Thomas Fortescue and Elizabeth Hamilton. She died in 1756, and Brooke married secondly Elizabeth Foorde at The Palace in Clogher on 21 September 1775. By his first wife, he had two daughters an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote
Charles Henry Coote, 2nd Baron Castle Coote PC (25 August 1754 – 22 January 1823), known as Charles Coote until 1802, was an Irish politician. Background and education A member of the Coote family headed by the Earl of Mountrath, Coote was the son of the Very Reverend Charles Coote, Dean of Kilfenora, by Grace Tilson, daughter of Thomas Tilson. Sir Eyre Coote was his younger brother. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Dublin. Political career Coote was returned to the Irish House of Commons for Queen's County in 1776, a seat he held until 1783, and then represented Maryborough until 1798. He once again sat for Queen's County from 1798 to 1800, when the Irish Parliament was abolished. He served as Commissioner of Barracks of Ireland between 1788 and 1789, as Commissioner of Accounts of Ireland between 1789 and 1795, as Commissioner of Customs of Ireland between 1795 and 1799 and as Commissioner of Excise of Ireland between 1799 and 1806 and was sworn of the Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet (25 December 1744 – December 1801) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament. Biography A Church of Ireland landowner, his family had originally migrated to Ireland from Congleton in Cheshire. Although not from a Roman Catholic Irish background, Parnell is renowned in Irish history for his efforts to bring about a more emancipated country and was the great-grandfather of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Home Rule campaign. Parnell first served in the Parliament of Ireland as one of the members for Bangor, from 1767 to 1768. He later sat for Queen's County from 1783 until the Union with Great Britain created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. After the Union, he gained a seat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom for a short time as member for Queen's County, but died in December of the same year. From a line of politically astute ancestors who had moved to Ireland in the 17th century, Parnell rose to the hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard FitzPatrick
General Richard FitzPatrick (24 January 174825 April 1813), styled The Honourable from birth, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, wit, poet, and Whig politician. He sat in the British House of Commons for 39 years from 1774 to 1813, and was a "sworn brother" of the statesman Charles James Fox. He served in the Philadelphia campaign during the American Revolutionary War. Family and childhood FitzPatrick was a younger son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower. He had an elder brother, John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, and two sisters: Mary, who later married Charles James Fox's brother Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, and Louisa, who became the second wife of Fox's Whig adversary William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. After the death of her husband in 1758, Fitzpatrick's mother brought her children to England and soon remarried Richard Vernon, an original member of the Jockey Club. Lady Evelyn bore her s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Tydd, 1st Baronet
Sir John Tydd, 1st Baronet, of Lamberton, Queen's County (born c.1740, died December 1803) was an Irish politician, landowner and baronet.Cokayne Vol.5 p.435 He was the eldest son of French Tydd of County Laois and his wife Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Pierce Moore of Loran and Cremorgan, near Timahoe in the same county. Both families were long-established landowners. Arthur Moore MP (1765-1846), Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), was his cousin and heir. Tydd was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degree in 1764. He was called to the Bar in 1772, but did not practice. He travelled on the Continent as a young man, then entered politics: Henry Grattan was a friend and political ally of Tydd, as was Sir John Parnell, 2nd Baronet. He first entered the Irish House of Commons in 1778 as the member for Maryborough. His career was unusual, though not unique, in the number of constituencies he represented: he changed his seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl Of Roden
Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden KP, PC (Ire) (26 October 1756 – 29 June 1820) was an Irish peer, soldier and politician. He was styled The Honourable from his birth to 1771, and then Viscount Jocelyn from 1771 to 1797. He was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Roden and Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil. He was a professional soldier, and the company of dragoons he commanded, nicknamed "the Foxhunters", gained much notoriety during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. In particular, they played a leading role in the Gibbet Rath massacre at the Curragh of Kildare on 29 May 1798, where 350–500 insurgents, who had surrendered, were killed in cold blood. In defence of Roden it can be said that he acted on the orders of his superior officer, General Duff, and that the action was widely condoned at the time. In September his dragoons played a crucial part in the final defeat of the invading French army at the Battle of Ballinamuck: Lord Roden acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunt Walsh
General Hunt Walsh (1720 – 28 February 1795) was a British soldier and politician. Since the 1630s his family had owned lands in Ireland at Ballykilcavan, near Stradbally, Queen's County (now County Laois). He served as an officer in the 28th Regiment of Foot, rising to the rank of major in May 1753, and appointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy on 2 February 1757. During the Seven Years' War he commanded that regiment in North America, where it fought at the capture of Louisbourg and the Battle of the Plains of Abraham The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec (french: Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham, Première bataille de Québec), was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe .... He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1760, and appointed to the colonelcy of the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1766, a post he would hold for almost thirty years. He was promoted to major-general in 1772, lieutena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Parnell, 1st Baronet
Sir John Parnell, 1st Baronet (c. 1720–1782), was an Irish politician and a baronet. Biography He was the only son of John Parnell (1680–1727), Esq., MP and later Judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland), and Mary, sister of the Lord Chief-Justice William Whitshed. His uncle, the Rev. Thomas Parnell was the archdeacon of Clogher in 1705, prebendary of Dublin in 1713, vicar of Finglas in 1718, and poet, friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. He was appointed High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1753. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Maryborough in 1761, and was created a Baronet of Rathleague, Queen's County, on 3 November 1766. Sir John married Anne, second daughter of Michael Ward, of Castle Ward, County Down, one of the judges of the court of King's Bench in Ireland and Anna Catherine Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangor, County Down. Anne was the sister of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor. Sir John Parnell died in 1782, and was succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
