Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Trim
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Meath
Borough	Trim
–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Trim was a constituency and rotten borough in Trim, County Meath, represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

Members of Parliament

• 1560 John Parker and Patrick Martell
• 1585 Moses Hamon and Thomas Gwyre
• 1613–1615 Sir Thomas Ashe and Roger Jones
• 1634–1635 Robert, Lord Dillon and Valerian Weasley^[1]
• 1639–1649 Robert, Lord Dillon (elevated to the peerage and replaced by James Whyte. Whyte died and was replaced 1643 by Thomas Trafford) and Patrick Barnewall of Kilbrew (expelled and replaced 1642 by George Peasley. Peasley died and was replaced 1642 by Thomas Coote)
• 1661–1666 Sir Thomas Gifford, 1st Baronet (died and replaced 1662 by Henry Whitfield) and Alexander Jephson (Jephson executed July 1663. Replaced 1663 by Arthur Dillon)^[2]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		Nicholas Cusack			Walter Nangle
1692		Stafford Lightbourne			Garret Wesley
1695					William Napper
1697		Robert Johnson
1703		James Napper
1709					John Bligh
1713		Richard Ashe			Thomas Jones
1715		John Perceval			John Keating
1717					Robert Perceval
1719		Thomas Carter
1727		Garret Wesley			Richard Ashe
1728					John Wade
1729		Richard Wesley
1735					Joseph Ashe
1747		Chichester Fortescue
1757		Hon. Garret Wesley
1758		William Francis Crosbie
1761		Robert Perceval			John Pomeroy
1768		Thomas Fortescue
1780		Richard Wesley, Viscount Wellesley
1781		William Arthur Crosbie
1783		Hon. William Wesley[3]
1790		Hon. Arthur Wellesley
1791					Hon. Clotworthy Taylor
February 1795					Hon. Henry Wellesley
1795					William Arthur Crosbie
1798		Sir Chichester Fortescue
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. House of Commons 1878, p. 628. "1634 / 3 July / Robert Lord Dillon, Baron of Kilkenny West. / Moymet / ditto. [Trim Borough]"
2. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 628.
3. from 1789 Hon. William Wellesley-Pole

References

• House of Commons (1878). Return. Members of Parliament – Part II. Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705–1796. Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801–1874. Parliaments and Conventions of the Estates of Scotland, 1357–1707. Parliaments of Ireland, 1599–1800. London: His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office. OCLC 13112546.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.