| Armagh Borough Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1613 |
| Post-Union: | Armagh City (UK Parliament constituency) |
| Type: | Irish House of Commons |
Armagh Borough (also known as Armagh City) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1613 to 1800.
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Boundaries and boundary changes
This constituency was the borough of Armagh in County Armagh.
During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland the borough was not represented in the Protectorate Parliaments (1654-1659), except as a small part of the Down, Antrim and Armagh county constituency.
After the restoration, in 1660, the Parliament of Ireland was revived with the borough again represented.
Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained one parliamentary seat in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
Members of Parliament
It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1613 to 1800.
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- 1613-1615 ?
- 1634-1635 ?
- 1639-1649 ?
- 1661-1666 ?
- 1689-1689 Francis Stafford and Constantine O'Neale Members of the Patriot Parliament
1692–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1692 | Marmaduke Coghill | Edward Lyndon | ||||
| 1695 | Samuel Dopping | |||||
| 1713 | Epaphroditus Marsh | |||||
| 1715 | Silvester Crosse | Charles Bourchier | ||||
| 1716 | John Eyre | |||||
| 1727 | Edward Knatchbull | Ambrose Philips | ||||
| 1749 | Philip Bragg | |||||
| 1759 | Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock | |||||
| May 1761 | Robert Cuninghame | Hon. John Ponsonby | ||||
| 1761 | Hon. Barry Maxwell | |||||
| 1768 | George Macartney | Philip Tisdall | ||||
| 1769 | Charles O'Hara | |||||
| 1776 | Philip Tisdall | Henry Meredyth | ||||
| 1777 | George Rawson | |||||
| January 1790 | Henry Duquery | |||||
| May 1790 | Robert Hobart [1] | |||||
| 1796 | Sackville Hamilton | |||||
| 1798 | Hon. Thomas Pelham | Patrick Duigenan | ||||
| 1799 | Gerard Lake |
Notes
- ^ from 1793 Robert Hobart, Lord Hobart
Elections
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References
- Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons
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