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Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

Index Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

Westmeath is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament 1801–1885 and one in 1918–1922. [1]

48 relations: Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville, Athlone, Borough, County Westmeath, First Parliament of the United Kingdom, Groom in Waiting, Henry Joseph Gill, Hercules Robert Pakenham, Home Rule League, Irish general election, 1918, Irish Parliamentary Party, Laurence Ginnell, Liberal Party (UK), Lord Robert Montagu, Member of parliament, North Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency), Patrick James Smyth, Percy Nugent, Queen Victoria, Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Repeal Association, Sinn Féin, Sir Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet, Sir Richard Levinge, 7th Baronet, South Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency), Timothy Daniel Sullivan, Timothy Harrington, Tories (British political party), United Kingdom general election, 1812, United Kingdom general election, 1826, United Kingdom general election, 1830, United Kingdom general election, 1832–33, United Kingdom general election, 1841, United Kingdom general election, 1847, United Kingdom general election, 1852, United Kingdom general election, 1857, United Kingdom general election, 1859, United Kingdom general election, 1865, United Kingdom general election, 1868, United Kingdom general election, 1874, United Kingdom general election, 1880, United Kingdom general election, 1918, United Kingdom general election, 1922, Walter Nugent, Westmeath by-election, 1869, Westmeath by-election, 1871, Whigs (British political party), William Pollard-Urquhart.

Algernon Greville, 2nd Baron Greville

Algernon William Fulke Greville, 2nd Baron Greville (11 February 1841 – 2 December 1909), styled Hon.

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Athlone

Athlone is a town on the River Shannon near the southern shore of Lough Ree in Ireland.

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Borough

A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.

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County Westmeath

County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí or simply An Iarmhí) is a county in Ireland.

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First Parliament of the United Kingdom

In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801, the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland.

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Groom in Waiting

The office of Groom in Waiting (sometimes hyphenated as Groom-in-Waiting) was a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, which in earlier times was usually held by more than one person at a time – in the late Middle Ages there might be dozens of persons with the rank.

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Henry Joseph Gill

Henry Joseph Gill (1836 – 1903) was an Irish publisher, translator, and politician.

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Hercules Robert Pakenham

Lieutenant-General Sir Hercules Robert Pakenham (29 September 1781 – 7 March 1850) was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to William IV of the United Kingdom.

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Home Rule League

The Home Rule League (1873–1882), sometimes called the Home Rule Party or the Home Rule Confederation, was a political party which campaigned for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, until it was replaced by the Irish Parliamentary Party.

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Irish general election, 1918

The Irish general election of 1918 was that part of the 1918 general election which took place in Ireland.

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Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland up until 1918.

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Laurence Ginnell

Laurence Ginnell (baptised 9 April 1852 – 17 April 1923) was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP) of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for Westmeath North at the 1906 UK general election.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Lord Robert Montagu

Lord Robert Montagu PC (24 January 1825 – 6 May 1902), was a British Conservative politician.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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North Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

North Westmeath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1918.

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Patrick James Smyth

Patrick James Smyth (c. 1823 – 1885) also known as Nicaragua Smyth, was an Irish politician and journalist.

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Percy Nugent

Sir Percy Fitzgerald Nugent, 1st Baronet (29 September 1797 – 25 June 1874), was an Irish politician.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict., c. 23) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Repeal Association

The Repeal Association was an Irish mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1830 to campaign for a repeal of the Acts of Union of 1800 between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin (isbn) is a left-wing Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Sir Montagu Chapman, 3rd Baronet

Sir Montagu Lowther Chapman (19 December 1808 – 17 May 1852) was an Irish landowner and Member of Parliament (MP).

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Sir Richard Levinge, 7th Baronet

Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, 7th Baronet (1 November 1811 – 28 September 1884) was an Irish landowner and politician from Knockdrin Castle, County Westmeath.

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South Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency)

South Westmeath was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) 1885–1918.

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Timothy Daniel Sullivan

Timothy Daniel Sullivan (29 May 1827 – 31 March 1914) was an Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet who wrote the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland", in 1867.

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Timothy Harrington

Timothy Charles Harrington (1851 – 12 March 1910), born in Castletownbere, County Cork, was an Irish journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Tories (British political party)

The Tories were members of two political parties which existed sequentially in the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th to the early 19th centuries.

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United Kingdom general election, 1812

The 1812 United Kingdom general election was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.

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United Kingdom general election, 1826

The 1826 United Kingdom general election saw the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool win a substantial and increased majority over the Whigs.

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United Kingdom general election, 1830

The 1830 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George IV and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor, William IV.

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United Kingdom general election, 1832–33

The United Kingdom general election, the first after the Reform Act, saw the Whigs win a large majority, with the Tories winning less than 30% of the vote.

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United Kingdom general election, 1841

In the 1841 United Kingdom general election, there was a big swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 1847

The 1847 United Kingdom general election saw candidates calling themselves Conservatives win the most seats, in part because they won a number of uncontested seats.

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United Kingdom general election, 1852

The 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain.

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United Kingdom general election, 1857

In the 1857 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, finally won a majority in the House of Commons as the Conservative vote fell significantly.

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United Kingdom general election, 1859

In the 1859 United Kingdom general election, the Whigs, led by Lord Palmerston, held their majority in the House of Commons over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives.

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United Kingdom general election, 1865

The 1865 United Kingdom general election saw the Liberals, led by Lord Palmerston, increase their large majority over the Earl of Derby's Conservatives to more than 80.

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United Kingdom general election, 1868

The 1868 United Kingdom general election was the first after passage of the Reform Act 1867, which enfranchised many male householders, thus greatly increasing the number of men who could vote in elections in the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1874

The 1874 United Kingdom general election saw the incumbent Liberals, led by William Ewart Gladstone, lose decisively, even though it won a majority of the votes cast.

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United Kingdom general election, 1880

The 1880 United Kingdom general election was a general election in the United Kingdom held from 31 March to 27 April 1880.

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United Kingdom general election, 1918

The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday 14 December 1918.

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United Kingdom general election, 1922

The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922.

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Walter Nugent

Sir Walter Richard, 4th Baronet (12 December 1865 – 12 November 1955), was an Irish baronet, politician and Member of parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1907 to 1918.

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Westmeath by-election, 1869

The Westmeath by-election of 1869 was fought on 7 January 1869.

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Westmeath by-election, 1871

The Westmeath by-election of 1871 was fought on 17 June 1871.

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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William Pollard-Urquhart

William Pollard-Urquhart (19 June 1815 – 1 June 1871), was a 19th-century writer specialising in economic and policy questions of his day; he served as high sheriff of County Westmeath, and sat as Member of Parliament for the county.

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Redirects here:

County Westmeath (UK Parliament constituency).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmeath_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

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