Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency)

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Monaghan County constituency
Created:	1801
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	two

Monaghan is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Monaghan.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		Richard Dawson			Warner William Westenra
1801					Charles Powell Leslie
1807		Thomas Charles Stewart Corry
1812		Richard Thomas Dawson
1813		Thomas Charles Stewart Corry
1818		Henry Robert Westenra
1826					Evelyn John Shirley
1830		Cadwallader Davis Blayney	Conservative
1831					Henry Robert Westenra	Whig
1832					Louis Perrin
1834		Henry Robert Westenra	Whig
1834		Edward Lucas
1835					Henry Robert Westenra	Whig
1841		Evelyn Philip Shirley
1843					Charles Powell Leslie
1847		Thomas Vesey Dawson
1852		Sir George Forster
1865		Vesey Dawson
1868		Sewallis Evelyn Shirley
1871					John Leslie	Conservative
1880		John Givan			William Findlater
1883		Timothy Michael Healy	Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	constituency abolished: see North Monaghan and South Monaghan

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.