Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath (4 January 1684 – 27 March 1720), styled The Honourable Henry Coote until 1715, was an Irish peer and politician who sat in the

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from 1715 to 1720. Coote was the second son of Charles Coote, 3rd Earl of Mountrath and his wife Lady Isabella Dormer, daughter of

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. His father died in 1709 and his elder brother

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, who succeeded to the

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, died unmarried, and Henry inherited in his turn on 14 September 1715. Mountrath had entered Parliament in February 1715, as Whig Member of Parliament for

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in Yorkshire. As the earldom was Irish, it did not disqualify him from keeping his seat when he succeeded his brother, and he remained Member for Knaresborough until his death five years later. He was appointed to the

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in 1718. Mountrath died unmarried, and the title passed to his younger brother, Algernon (1689–1744).

References

*Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973) *
Coote genealogy
, - 1684 births 1720 deaths British MPs 1715–1722 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Hereditary peers elected to the House of Commons Members of the Privy Council of Ireland

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