This is a list of the Members of Parliament appointed as Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which was used to resign from the Irish House of Commons, and after the Union, that of the United Kingdom.
The escheator was originally responsible for the administration of escheat /ɪsˈtʃiːt/,[1][2] a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the crown or state.
It was founded in 1605, when the escheatorship for Ireland was divided among the provinces of Connaught, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.
[3] After the Acts of Union 1800, the office was retained as a sinecure, without duties, and was also used for resignation from Parliamentary seats.
In the latter year, however, all of the Irish escheatorships were abolished by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.