Lifford (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
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Lifford was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons
until 1800.
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords...
until 1800.
1692–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1692 | Hugh Hamill | John Montgomery | ||||
| 1698 | Robert King | |||||
| 1703 | David Creighton | |||||
| 1709 | Robert King | |||||
| 1711 | Michael Sampson | |||||
| 1719 | Richard Hamilton | |||||
| 1727 | Abraham Creighton Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne was an Irish peer and politician.Erne was a major landowner in County Fermanagh. He represented Lifford in the Irish House of Commons from 1727 until 1768, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Erne, of Crom Castle in the County of Fermanagh... |
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| 1729 | Thomas Montgomery (1700– April 1761) Thomas Montgomery (politician) Thomas Montgomery was an Irish politician.He was born in 1700 to Colonel Alexander Montgomery M.P. for County Monaghan, of Ballyleck, County Monaghan, and Elizabeth Cole, , daughter of Colonel Thomas Cole of Mount Florence, Florencecourt, County Fermanagh... |
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| 1761 | John Creighton John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne John Creighton, 1st Earl Erne PC , known as The Lord Erne between 1772 and 1781 and as The Viscount Erne between 1781 and 1789, was an Irish peer and politician.... |
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| 1768 | Abraham Creighton | |||||
| 1773 | James Cavendish | |||||
| 1776 | Sir Nicholas Lawless, 1st Bt | |||||
| 1789 | Edward Cooke Edward Cooke (British politician) -Family and Early life:He was born at Denham, Buckinghamshire, the third but only surviving son of William Cooke , provost of King's College, Cambridge and his wife, Catherine, the daughter of Richard Sleech, a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor... |
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| 1790 | Abraham Creighton, Viscount Creighton Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne Abraham Creighton, 2nd Earl Erne was an Irish peer and politician.He was the elder son of the 1st Earl Erne, by his first wife, Catherine Howard. Between 1790 and 1798, he represented Lifford in the Irish House of Commons. In Dublin, he was a member of the Kildare Street Club.In November 1798... |
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| 1798 | John Creighton |