Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath

Noble person

1689 – 1744

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Who was Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath?

Algernon Coote, 6th Earl of Mountrath PC, styled The Honourable Algernon Coote until 1720, was an Irish peer who sat as a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland as well as in the Parliament of Great Britain.

Coote was the third son of the 3rd Earl of Mountrath. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1706. Coote was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Jamestown in 1715. His elder brothers Charles and Henry both succeeded to the earldom before him but died unmarried. Coote succeeded in his turn on 27 March 1720 and ascended to the Irish House of Lords.

Mountrath was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in 1723. As his earldom was also Irish, it did not disqualify him from sitting in the British House of Commons, and he entered Parliament in the same year as member for Castle Rising in Norfolk, which he represented for ten years. He also became Governor of Queen's County.

In 1741 he stood for Parliament again at Hedon in Yorkshire, and was initially declared defeated. However, on petition to the House of Commons, the result was overturned and on 4 March 1742 Mountrath was declared elected after all.

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Born
Jun 6, 1689
Died
Aug 27, 1744

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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