Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

Westmeath
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Replaced by	North Westmeath and South Westmeath
1918–1922
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
1847, 10 August		William Henry Magan			Sir Percy Fitzgerald Nugent, Bt
1852, 22 July					William Pollard-Urquhart	Whig
1857, 3 April					Sir Richard Levinge, Bt.
1859, 10 May		William Pollard-Urquhart	Liberal
1865, 20 July					Hon. Algernon Greville-Nugent (later Baron Greville)
1871, 17 July		Patrick James Smyth	Home Rule Party
1874, 13 February					Lord Robert Montagu
1880, 13 April		Timothy Daniel Sullivan	Home Rule League		Henry Joseph Gill
1883, 27 February					Timothy Charles Harrington
1885	Constituency abolished: see North Westmeath and South Westmeath

MPs 1885–1918

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Laurence Ginnell	Sinn Féin
1922		constituency abolished

Elections

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)