St Johnstown (County Longford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

St Johnstown was a borough constituency for Ballinalee or Saintjohnstown County Longford represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

St Johnstown
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Members of Parliament

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1634		John Ware			Edmund Beagan
1639		John Ware			Dudley Loftus
1661		John Edgeworth			Sir Henry Piers, 1st Baronet
1689 Patriot Parliament		Sir William Ellis			Lt.-Col. James Nugent
1692		Sir John Edgeworth			Alexander Fraser
1695					John Aghmooty
1703		Ambrose Edgeworth
1711		Anthony Atkinson
1713		John Kennedy			Robert Edgeworth
1715		Henry Edgeworth
1721		Henry Edgeworth
1727					Thomas Newcomen
1751		Hon. John Forbes
1761		George Forbes, Viscount Forbes [1]			Charles Newcomen
1762		George Forbes [2]
1768		Ralph Fetherston [3]
1773					Robert Jephson
1776					Hon. John Vaughan
1780		Sackville Hamilton
1783		Sir Thomas Fetherston, 2nd Bt			Nicholas Colthurst [4]
1790		George Cavendish			John Taylor
January 1798		Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Bt [5]			Francis Hardy
1798		Richard Lovell Edgeworth			William Moore
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. Sat for Mullingar
2. from 1765 George Forbes, Viscount Forbes
3. from 1776 Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Bt
4. from 1787 Sir Nicholas Colthurst, 3rd Bt
5. sat for Longford County

References

• 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.