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Dungannon (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Dungannon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. History In the Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ... of 1689 summoned by James II, Dungannon was represented with two members. Members of Parliament, 1613–1801 Notes Notes ReferencesParliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885 Bibliography * * {{Authority control Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Dungannon Historic constituencies in County Tyrone 1613 establishments in Ireland 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies established in 1613 Constituencies disestablished in 1800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungannon
Dungannon (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2021 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council had its headquarters in the town, though since 2015 the area has been covered by Mid-Ulster District Council. For centuries, it was the 'capital' of the O'Neill dynasty of Tír Eoghain, who dominated most of Ulster and built a castle on the hill. After the O'Neills' defeat in the Nine Years' War (Ireland), Nine Years' War, the English founded a Plantation of Ireland, plantation town on the site, which grew into what is now Dungannon. Dungannon has won Britain in Bloom, Ulster in Bloom's Best Kept Town Award five times. It currently has the highest percentage of immigrants of any town in Northern Ireland. History For centuries, Dungannon's fortunes were closely tied to that of the O'Neill dynasty which ruled a large part of Ulster unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver St George
Oliver St George (1661 – 15 April 1731) was an Irish politician. The son of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet and Olivia Beresford, he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Knox and Mary Bruce, in 1701. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for both Carrick and Dungannon in September 1703, and chose to sit for Carrick. In the next general election in November 1713 he was elected again for Dungannon, and sat there until his death. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 9 October 1714. References 1661 births 1731 deaths Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Younger sons of baronets Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Leitrim constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tyrone constituencies Oliver Oliver may refer to: Arts, entertainment and literature Books * ''Oliver the Western Engine'', volume 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Knox, 1st Earl Of Ranfurly
Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (5 August 1754 – 26 April 1840), styled The Honourable Thomas Knox between 1781 and 1818 and known as The Viscount Northland between 1818 and 1831, was an Irish peer and politician. Early life Ranfurly was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland, and the Hon. Anne Vesey, daughter of John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton. His brothers included bishops William Knox and Edmund Knox, George Knox , and Archdeacon Charles Knox. His father had been elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, in 1781 and further ennobled as Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone, in 1791. His paternal grandparents were Hester ( Echlin) Knox and Thomas Knox, MP for Dungannon who was Deputy-Governor of County Tyrone. His maternal grandparents were John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton and the former Elizabeth Brownlow (daughter of William Brownlow). Career Ranfurly was elected a member of the Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Patriot Party
The Irish Patriot Party was the name of a number of different political groupings in Ireland throughout the 18th century. They were primarily supportive of British Whig Party, Whig concepts of personal liberty combined with an Irish identity that rejected full independence but advocated strong self-government within the British Empire. Due to the discriminatory Penal Laws against Irish Catholics, penal laws, the Parliament of Ireland, Irish Parliament at the time was exclusively Anglican Communion, Anglican Protestant. Their main achievement was the Constitution of 1782, which gave Ireland legislative independence. Early Irish Patriots In 1689, a short-lived "Patriot Parliament" had sat in Dublin before James II of England, James II, and briefly obtained ''de facto'' legislative independence, while ultimately subject to the English monarchy. The parliament's membership mostly consisted of land-owning Roman Catholic Jacobitism, Jacobites who lost the ensuing War of the Grand Allia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limerick City (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Limerick City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. Members of Parliament * 1559 Edward Arthur and Clement Fanning * 1585 Thomas Arthur and Stephen White * 1613 Sir Nicholas Arthur and James Galway * 1634 Sir Geffrey Galwey, 1st Baronet and Dominick White * 1639 Peter FitzAndrew Creagh and Dr Dominick FitzDavid White * 1654 ''Protectorate Parliament'' - (Limerick City and Kilmallock) William Purefoy and Walter Waller * 1658 ''Protectorate Parliament This is a list of parliaments of England from the reign of King Henry III, when the '' Curia Regis'' developed into a body known as Parliament, until the creation of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1707. For later parliaments, see the List ...'' - (Limerick City and Kilmallock) Sir George Ingoldsby and Standish Hartstonge * 1661 Sir Standish Hartstonge, 1st Baronet and Gerald Fitzgerald 1689–1801 Notes References * {{Authority control Historic constituencies in County L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery
Edmund Sexton Pery, 1st Viscount Pery (8 April 1719 – 24 February 1806) was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as the penultimate Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785. He was one of the most powerful and prominent political figures in Ireland during the second half of the 18th-century. As an Irish Patriot, he was a leading voice for the legislative independence of the Parliament of Ireland from the British parliament at Westminster, and opposed the Acts of Union 1800. Away from politics, he was instrumental in the development of his home city of Limerick. Early life He was born in Limerick, into one of the city's most politically influential families, the elder son of the Rev. Stackpole Pery and Jane (née Twigge). His maternal grandfather was William Twigg, Archdeacon of Limerick. His younger brother was the leading Church of Ireland clergyman, William Pery, who was ennobled as Baron Glentworth in 1790. His younger sister was Lucy Hartstonge, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire), Royal Society, FRS (3 April 174528 May 1814) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1774 to 1793. Early life A member of the influential Eden baronets, Eden family, Auckland was a younger son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet, of Windlestone Hall, County Durham, and Mary, daughter of William Davison. His brothers included Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet, also an MP; Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland, the last royal List of colonial governors of Maryland, Governor of Maryland; and Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley, diplomat. He was educated at Durham School, Eton College, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar, Middle Temple, in 1768. Career In 1771, Auckland published ''Principles of Penal Law'', and soon became a recognized authority on commercial and economic questions. In 1772 he took up an appointment as Under-Secretary of Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles O'Hara (Irish Parliament)
General Charles O'Hara (1740 – 25 February 1802) was a British Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary War and later served as governor of Gibraltar. He served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War, American War of Independence, commanding a brigade of Coldstream Guards, Foot Guards as part of the army of Charles Cornwallis and was wounded during the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. He offered the British surrender during the siege of Yorktown on behalf of his superior Charles Cornwallis and is depicted in the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, eponymous painting by John Trumbull. During his career O'Hara personally surrendered to both George Washington and Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte. O'Hara's Battery and O'Hara's Tower in Gibraltar were named after him. Early life Charles O'Hara was born in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, the illegitimate son of James O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Knox (1740–1791)
John Knox ( – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish Ministers and elders of the Church of Scotland, minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of Scottish Reformation, the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgate, a street in Haddington, East Lothian, Knox is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Catholic Church in Scotland, Scottish Church. He was caught up in the and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal David Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549. While in exile, Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he rose in the ranks to serve King Edward VI of England as a royal chaplain. He exerted a reforming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland
Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (20 April 1729 – 5 November 1818), known as The Lord Welles between 1781 and 1791, was an Irish politician. Background Thomas Knox was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin. He died on 5 November 1818 aged 89. Political career Knox was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Dungannon from 1755 until 1781. In 1781, he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone. In 1791 Knox was ennobled as Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone. With the Act of Union and the abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800, he became one of the 28 original Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords from then until his death. About that time he was also appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tyrone. Family Knox married Hon. Anne Vesey, daughter of John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton and Elizabeth Brownlow in 1753. They had seven children: * Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Knox (1694–1769)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Knox may refer to: * Thomas Knox (bishop) (died 1627/28), Scottish prelate * Thomas Knox (died 1728) (c. 1640–1728), Irish MP for Newtonards and Dungannon * Thomas Knox (footballer) (born 1939), Scottish footballer * Thomas Knox (1694–1769), Irish MP for Dungannon * Thomas Francis Knox (1822–1882), Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic priest and author * Sir Thomas George Knox (1824–1887), Irish soldier and diplomat, consul-general in Siam *Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900–1980), British philosopher and Principal of St Andrews University * Thomas W. Knox (1835–1896), journalist, author and world traveler * Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (1729–1818), Irish politician * Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (1754–1840), Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (1786–1858), Anglo-Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly (13 November 1816 – 20 May 1858), styled Viscount North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Echlin
Charles Echlin (1682 – 26 March 1754) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Echlin, eldest of the three sons of Robert Echlin of Ardquin, County Down; his mother was Hester Godfrey, daughter of William Godfrey of Coleraine. His uncles were the judge and baronet Sir Henry Echlin and General Robert Echlin. The Echlin family had come to Ulster from Fife in Scotland in the early seventeenth century. He married Anna Knox, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Knox of Dungannon. They had one son Thomas, who died young. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dungannon Dungannon (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2021 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Counci ... from 1727 until his death.E. M. Johnston-Liik, ''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800'' (2006page 86 Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
