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William Elliot (Irish politician)

Irish politician

William Elliot (12 March 1766 – 26 October 1818) was an Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons before its abolition. After the Act of Union he sat as a Whig in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Biography

Elliot was elected to the Irish House of Commons in 1796 as a Member of Parliament for St Canice. At the 1798 election he was returned for both Carlow and for St Canice, but chose to continue to sit for St Canice. He held that seat until the Parliament of Ireland was abolished at the end of 1800 by the Act of Union, when he did not initially have a seat in the new Parliament of the United Kingdom.

However, he was elected at an unopposed by-election{{cite book in March 1801 as MP for Portarlington, and held that seat until the 1802 general election, when he was returned to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for the English borough of Peterborough.{{cite book |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig |orig-date=1844-1850

He was sworn as a Privy Councillor in March 1806, in Dublin Castle,{{London Gazette and appointed on 28 March as Chief Secretary for Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents. He held that post until 1807.

References

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