Cavan Former Borough constituency |
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Created | 1611 |
Post-Union | Disenfranchised |
Type | Irish House of Commons |
Cavan Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.
Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
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This constituency was the borough of Cavan in County Cavan.
It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1611 to 1800. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Cavan Borough was represented with two members.[1] The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.
Irish MPs sat in the Parliament of the Protectorate
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | Philip Og O'Reilly | Hugh Reily | ||||
1692 | Thomas Ashe | Robert Saunders | ||||
1709 | Joseph Addison | |||||
1713 | Charles Lambart | Theophilus Clements | ||||
1715 | Thomas Nesbitt | |||||
1729 | Henry Clements | |||||
1745 | Robert Clements | |||||
1747 | Edward Weston | |||||
1750 | Cosby Nesbitt | |||||
1761 | Nathaniel Clements [note 1] | |||||
1768 | Thomas Nesbitt | |||||
1769 | Henry Theophilus Clements | |||||
1776 | Nathaniel Clements [note 2] | |||||
1777 | John Clements | |||||
1783 | Henry Theophilus Clements | |||||
1790 | Lord Charles James FitzGerald | |||||
1798 | Viscount Clements [note 3] | |||||
1798 | George Cavendish | |||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |
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