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Strabane (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Coordinates: 54°49′23″N 7°28′05″W / 54.823°N 7.468°W / 54.823; -7.468
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54°49′23″N 7°28′05″W / 54.823°N 7.468°W / 54.823; -7.468

Strabane
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Tyrone
BoroughStrabane
? (?) (? (?))–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Strabane was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Members of Parliament

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Election First member First party Second member Second party
1613 James Montgomery Daniel Molyneux
1634 Richard FitzGerald Charles Mouncke
1639 James Galbraith
1661 Alexander Staples, expelled
and repl, 1665 by
Sir Peter Harvey
John Craige
1666 James Hamilton[1]
1689 Patriot Parliament Christopher Nugent Peter Donnelly
1692 Sir Matthew Bridges Oliver McCausland
1695 Audley Mervyn
1703 James Topham
1713 Gustavus Hamilton
1715 Richard Stewart
1723 Henry Colley
1725 John McCausland
1727 Hon. Charles Hamilton
1729 Oliver McCausland
1733 William Hamilton
1761 Robert Lowry
1763 John Stuart Hamilton [a]
1765 George Montgomery
1768 William Brownlow
1769 Claude Hamilton
1776 Henry Pomeroy [b]
January 1798 Nathaniel Montgomery-Moore John Stewart
1798 Andrew Knox
1801 Constituency disenfranchised

Notes and references

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  1. ^ from 1781 Sir John Hamilton, 1st Bt
  2. ^ from 1783 Hon. Henry Pomeroy
  1. ^ Paul 1904, p. 56, bottom: "In 1666 he was elected Member of Parliament for the borough of Strabane, and took the seat on 3 July in that year ..."
  • Paul, Sir James Balfour (1904), The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, vol. 1, Edinburgh: David Douglas – Abercorn to Balmerino

Further reading

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