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Fore (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Fore was a constituency in County Westmeath represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1612 to 1800. History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II of England, James II, Fore was represented with two members. Members of Parliament *1634–1635: Lucas Fitzgerald and Thomas Nugent (died 1634 and replaced by John Nugent) *1639–1649: John Nugent (died 1647 and replaced by Oliver Walshe) *1661–1666: Sir Timothy Tyrrill of Buckinghamshire (absent/died and replaced 1662 by Henry Cary, 4th Viscount Falkland, Charles Viscount Falkland. Falkland died and was replaced 1663 by John Forrest) and William Markham 1689–1801 Notes References Bibliography * * {{Coord missing, County Westmeath Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Westmeath 1800 disestablishments in Ireland Constituencies disestablished in 1800 1612 establishments in Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fore, County Westmeath
Fore () is a village, next to the old Rule of St Benedict, Benedictine Abbey ruin of Fore Abbey, situated to the north of Lough Lene in County Westmeath, in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The village, (sister parish of nearby St. Mary's Collinstown, County Westmeath, Collinstown) is situated within a valley between two hills: the Hill of Ben, the Hill of Houndslow, and the Ankerland rise area. There can be found the ruins of a Christianity, Christian monastery, which had been populated at one time by France, French Benedictine monks from Évreux, Normandy. Fore is the English language, anglicised version of the Irish language, Irish name that signifies "the town of the water-springs" and was given to the area after Saint Feichin’s spring or well, which is next to the old church a short distance from where the ruined monastery still stands. It was Saint Feichin, St. Feichin who founded the ancient Fore Abbey around 630. By 665 (the time of the Plague_of_Justinian, yellow plagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Nugent (politician)
Sir Walter Richard Nugent, 4th Baronet (12 December 1865 – 12 November 1955) was an Irish baronet, politician and member of parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1907 to 1918. Nugent was elected unopposed to the House of Commons as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for South Westmeath at a by-election in 1907, and held the seat through the January and December 1910 elections, until 1918. At the 1918 general election, he ran as an independent nationalist candidate in the Westmeath constituency but was defeated by Sinn Féin's Laurence Ginnell. In 1896, he had succeeded to the baronetcy of Donore in Multyfarnham, County Westmeath. He was a member of Seanad Éireann of the Irish Free State The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish-language, Irish name ( , ), was a State (polity), state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The treaty ended the three-ye ... from 1928 to 1931. He was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1783 Irish General Election
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1783, the first after the passing of the series of constitutional legal changes known as the Constitution of 1782, which lifted the substantial legal restrictions on the Irish parliament. The elections were fought in a highly charged political atmosphere, with a major emphasis on the issues of parliamentary reform and free trade. Following the election, Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery, Sexton Pery was re-elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, Speaker. Henry Grattan, the leader of the Patriot Party, had rejected an office in government in 1782, choosing instead to continue his role in opposition. Instead, the Dublin Castle administration was undertaken by a group that was referred to by Edmund Burke as the Junta; dominated by individuals such as John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare, John FitzGibbon, the new Attorney General and later Lord Chancellor. John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, John Foster was appointed as the Junta' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nugent, 7th Earl Of Westmeath
George Frederick Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath (18 November 1760 – 30 December 1814), styled Lord Delvin until 1792, was an Irish peer. He gained notoriety in his own lifetime, due to his unhappy first marriage to Maryanne Jeffries, which ended in divorce, following a much-publicised legal action by the husband for criminal conversation. Background and early career Nugent was the only surviving son of Thomas Nugent, 6th Earl of Westmeath, by his second wife Catherine White, daughter of Henry White of Pitchfordstown, County Kildare. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Fore from 1780 until 1792, when he succeeded his father in the earldom. He became a member of the Irish Privy Council the following year, and held the offices of Custos Rotulorum for Westmeath and Auditor of Foreign Accounts. He was appointed Colonel of the Westmeath Militia when it was first raised on 25 April 1793. In 1796 he was involved in suppressing a threatened rebellion, a prelude to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius O'Keefe
The O'Keefe Ranch is a historic ranch in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada on the Canadian National Railway, just northwest of Vernon. The ranch was founded in 1867 by Cornelius O'Keefe. Cornelius O'Keefe Cornelius O’Keefe was born on July 26, 1838, near Fallowfield, Ontario. His father, Michael O’Keefe ( – 1864) was an Irish immigrant from Kilworth, County Cork, and his mother, Esther Demers, was French Canadian. Cornelius was the seventh child of Michael and Esther, who ran a farm in Nepean Township, Upper Canada. In 1862, having heard of the discovery of gold in British Columbia, he travelled west via the Isthmus of Panama. After an unsuccessful attempt at gold-mining in the Cariboo, he worked in 1862 on the construction of the Cariboo Road between Clinton and Bridge Creek under Gustavus Blinn Wright. Later he helped to build 115 Mile House at Lac la Hache. In 1866 O’Keefe met Thomas Wood, a native of Newfoundland, in the vicinity of Kamloops, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Fitzgerald (1742–1835)
James Fitzgerald (1742–1835), was an Irish politician, descended from the family of the White Knight. He was the younger son of William Fitzgerald, an attorney of Ennis, and brother of Maurice Fitzgerald, Clerk of the Crown for Connaught. Early career He was born in 1742, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. In 1769 he was called to the Irish Bar, and he soon obtained a large practice, and won a great reputation both as a sound lawyer and an eloquent pleader. In 1776 he entered the Irish House of Commons as member for Fore, a seat which he held until 1783. In 1783 he was elected both for Killybegs and Tulsk in Roscommon, and preferred to sit for the latter borough; in 1784 and 1790 he was re-elected for Tulsk, and in 1798 he was chosen to represent Kildare Borough in the last Irish Parliament. His eloquence soon made him as great a reputation in the Irish parliament as at the Irish bar, and he was recognised as one of the leading orators in the days of Grattan and Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet
Sir Benjamin Chapman, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish landowner. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) Burtchaell, G.D./ Sadlier, T.U. p145: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 Sir Benjamin had Killua Castle, County Westmeath County Westmeath (; or simply ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It formed part of the historic Kingdom of ... built as his family home. He was created first baronet of Killua Castle on 10 February 1782. He died in 1810 and was succeeded by his brother Sir Thomas Chapman, 2nd Baronet. References 18th-century births 1810 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Alumni of Trinity College Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Armstrong (Irish Politician)
John Armstrong was an Irish politician. Armstrong was born in County Tipperary and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was MP for Fore in County Westmeath from 1769 to 1776; and for Kilmallock in County Limerick County Limerick () is a western Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Reg ... from 1783 to 1792. References Politicians from County Tipperary Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Limerick constituencies Year of birth missing Year of death missing Place of birth missing {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Eyre (engineer)
Thomas Eyre was an Irish military engineer. Thomas Eyre was the second son of Colonel Samuel Eyre of Eyreville, County Galway. In 1738, he joined the regiment of James Oglethorpe, the founder of the Colony of Georgia, and sailed to the colony. He rose from the rank of cadet to be sub-engineer for Georgia and South Carolina by 1743, when he left for England. As a lieutenant, Eyre joined Trelawney's Regiment of Foot, headed by Edward Trelawney, Governor of Jamaica. He served in Jamaica and at Roatán (Rattan), and was promoted to captain in 1748. Eyre retired from active duty in 1752. On 31 August 1752, Eyre was appointed Surveyor General of Ireland, having purchased the office from Arthur Jones-Nevill. Joseph Jarratt worked as his deputy in this role. He undertook works at the Royal Barracks in Dublin, but the condition of the barracks was criticised by the Commissioners of the Ordnance for Ireland. As Surveyor General, he was also involved in harbour works at Dún Laogh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Newenham
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Lill
Godfrey Lill (born 1719, died 1783 in Enniskillen) was an Irish politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland). He became the Member of Parliament for Fore in 1761 and Baltinglass in 1768. He was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1770, and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1774. Early life He was born in Dublin, third son of Thomas Lill. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a scholar in 1737: he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1739 and his master's degree in 1741. He was considered one of the finest students of his generation. He entered Middle Temple in 1738, and was called to the Irish bar in 1743. Family He married Mary Bull, daughter of Nathaniel Bull of Surrey and had two daughters, Mary who married William Brereton, and Sarah who married Andrew Stewart, 1st Earl Castle Stewart. His father-in-law was an associate of the Duke of Newcastle, and Godfrey's rise to power is generally thought to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 Irish General Election
The 1761 Irish general election was the first general election to the Irish House of Commons in over thirty years, with the previous general election having taken place in 1727. Despite few constituencies hosting electoral contests, the election was significant due to it taking place in a time of rising political awareness within the Irish public, with many being drawn to the cause of patriotism. Background Unlike England, which had passed the Triennial Acts in 1694, thereby requiring elections every 3 years (and following 1716 every 7 years), Ireland had passed no similar pieces of legislation. As a result, the only limit on a term of parliament was the life of the monarch. This did not mean that the Commons had the same membership between 1727 and 1761, and numerous vacancies had occurred over the years, which had in turn been filled through by-elections. By the late 1750s the lack of frequent elections was becoming a contested issue, and the issue was taken up by the patriot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
