Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

Westmeath
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Replaced by	North Westmeath and South Westmeath
1918 (1918)–1922 (1922)
Created from	North Westmeath and South Westmeath

Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Westmeath, except for the Parliamentary borough of Athlone 1801–1885.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1801–1885

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		William Smyth [1]			Gustavus Hume-Rochfort [2]
1808, 27 February		Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham	Tory
1812, 24 October						Tory
1824, 3 March					Robert Smyth	Whig
1826, 22 June		Gustavus Rochfort	Tory		Hugh Morgan Tuite	Tory
1830, 12 August					Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman, Bt	Whig
1832, 20 December		Sir Richard Nagle, Bt [3]	Repeal Association
1841, 12 July		Hugh Morgan Tuite	Whig		Benjamin James Chapman	Whig
10 Aug 1847		William Henry Magan			Sir Percy Fitzgerald Nugent, Bt
22 Jul 1852					William Pollard-Urquhart
3 Apr 1857					Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
10 May 1859		William Pollard-Urquhart
20 Jul 1865					Algernon Greville (later Baron Greville)
17 Jul 1871		Patrick James Smyth	Home Rule Party
13 Feb 1874					Lord Robert Montagu
13 Apr 1880		Timothy Daniel Sullivan	Home Rule League		Henry Joseph Gill
27 Feb 1883					Timothy Charles Harrington
1885	Constituency abolished: see North Westmeath and South Westmeath

MPs 1885–1918

Years	Member	Party
1918 seat re-established
1918–1922	Laurence Ginnell	Sinn Féin

Elections

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Notes

1. ^ Resigned, 1808
2. ^ Classified as a Tory, by Stooks Smith, from the 1812 general election. Died in office, 1824
3. ^ Re-elected as a candidate of a Whig Party/Repeal Association electoral pact, in 1835 and 1837.

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)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)