Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 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)

1689–1801 ElectionFirst MPSecond 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 Wesleyfrom 1789 Hon. William Wellesley-Pole 1790 Hon. Arthur Wellesley 1791 Hon. Clotworthy Taylor February 1795 Hon. Henry Wellesley 1795 William Arthur Crosbie 1798 Sir Chichester Fortescue 1801 Constituency disenfranchised

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