Granard (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Granard was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Granard
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1679
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Granard was not represented.[1]

Members of Parliament, 1679–1801

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689		Granard was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692		John Perceval			Sir Walter Plunket
September 1703					Stephen Ludlow [note 1]
1703					Wentworth Harman
1713		John Parnell			John Rogerson
1715					James Peppard
1723		Charles Coote
1725					Robert Jocelyn
1727		James Macartney			John Folliott
1761		Edmond Malone			Robert Sibthorpe
1767		Gervase Parker Bushe
1768					Anthony Malone [note 2]
1769					Richard Malone
1776		Thomas Maunsell			John Kilpatrick
1780					William Long Kingsman
1783		Robert Jephson			George William Molyneux
1790		John Ormsby Vandeleur			Thomas Pakenham Vandeleur
January 1798		Hon. George Fulke Lyttelton			William Fulk Greville
1798					Ross Mahon
1800		Richard Townsend Herbert
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Dunleer in 1703, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Westmeath in 1768, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 502

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.