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UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885 and 1918–1922
County Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two
Members of Parliament from 1801 to 1885 and one from 1918 to 1922.
This constituency comprised
County Westmeath , except for the
parliamentary borough of
Athlone 1801–1885.
Year
1st Member
1st Party
2nd Member
2nd Party
1801, 1 January
William Smyth
[1]
Gustavus Hume Rochfort
[2]
Tory
[3]
1808, 27 February
Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham
Tory
1812, 24 October
Tory
1824, 3 March
Robert Smyth
Tory
[3]
1826, 22 June
Gustavus Rochfort
Tory
[3]
Hugh Morgan Tuite
Whig
[3]
[4]
1830, 12 August
Sir Montagu Chapman, Bt
Whig
[3]
[5]
1832, 20 December
Sir Richard Nagle, Bt
[6]
Repeal Association
[7]
1841, 12 July
Hugh Morgan Tuite
Whig
[3]
[4]
Benjamin Chapman
Whig
[3]
1847, 10 August
William Henry Magan
Repeal Association
[7]
Sir Percy Nugent, Bt
Whig
[8]
[9]
[10]
1852, 22 July
Ind. Irish
[7]
William Pollard-Urquhart
Ind. Irish
[7]
1857, 3 April
Whig
[10]
[11]
Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
Ind. Irish
[7]
1859, 10 May
William Pollard-Urquhart
Liberal
[7]
Liberal
[7]
1865, 20 July
Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent (later Baron Greville)
Liberal
[7]
1871, 17 July
Patrick James Smyth
Home Rule
[7]
1874, 13 February
Lord Robert Montagu
Home Rule
[7]
1880, 13 April
Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Parnellite Home Rule League
[7]
Henry Joseph Gill
Parnellite Home Rule League
[7]
Oct 1882
Irish Parliamentary
[7]
Irish Parliamentary
[7]
1883, 27 February
Timothy Harrington
Irish Parliamentary
[7]
1885
Constituency abolished: see
North Westmeath and
South Westmeath
Greville-Nugent was appointed a
Groom in Waiting to
Queen Victoria , requiring a by-election.
Pollard-Urquhart's death caused a by-election.
Gill resigned, causing a by-election.
^ Resigned, 1808
^ Died in office, 1824
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l Smith, Henry Stooks (1842).
The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections (Second ed.). Simpkin, Marshall & Company. pp. 242–243. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via
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The Spectator, Volume 19 . 1846. p. 1205. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via
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Churton, Edward (1838).
The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer . pp. 40–41. Retrieved 25 August 2019 – via
Google Books .
^ Re-elected as a candidate of a Whig Party/Repeal Association electoral pact, in 1835 and 1837.
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ag Walker, B.M., ed. (1978). Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922 . Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. pp. 242–243, 320, 398.
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"Elections" . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 11 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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"Westmeath" . Shipping and Mercantile Gazette . 28 July 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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"The New Parliament" . Lincolnshire Gazette . 20 August 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via
British Newspaper Archive .
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"Dublin Weekly Nation" . 21 March 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 14 October 2018 – via
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"Co. Westmeath" . The History of Parliament . Retrieved 24 May 2020 .