Shropshire / Salop | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1290–1832 | |
Seats | two |
Replaced by | North Shropshire and South Shropshire |
Shropshire (a.k.a. Salop) was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire. It was split into North Shropshire and South Shropshire in 1832.
Boundaries
[edit]The county limits.
History
[edit]Shropshire by the mid eighteenth century was seen as an independent county seat, controlled by the rank and file of the country gentry and tended to return Tory MPs despite the borough seats within Shropshire, and the dominant local Herbert and Clive families, being Whig.[1] From 1753 onwards there was a compromise by which the Tory country gentlemen chose the County MPs while the Herberts chose for Shrewsbury.[2]
Members of Parliament
[edit]- Constituency created (1290)
MPs 1290–1653
[edit]MPs 1654–1660
[edit]Parliament | First member | Second member | Third member | Fourth member |
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1654 | Humphrey Mackworth snr. | Thomas Mytton | Robert Corbet | Philip Young |
1658 | Thomas Mackworth | Samuel More | Andrew Lloyd | Philip Young |
1659 | Thomas Mackworth | Philip Young | two members only |
MPS 1660–1832
[edit]Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1660 | Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet | Henry Vernon | ||||
1661 | Sir Francis Lawley | Sir Richard Ottley | ||||
1670 | Hon. Richard Newport | Whig | ||||
1679 | Sir Vincent Corbet, 2nd Baronet | |||||
1681 | William Leveson-Gower | |||||
1685 | Edward Kynaston | John Walcot | ||||
1689 | Hon. Richard Newport | Whig | ||||
1698 | Sir Edward Leighton | |||||
1699 | Robert Lloyd | |||||
Jan. 1701 | Sir Humphrey Briggs | |||||
Dec. 1701 | Richard Corbet | |||||
1702 | Roger Owen | |||||
1705 | Sir Robert Corbet | Robert Lloyd | ||||
1708 | Lord Newport | |||||
1710 | John Kynaston | Robert Lloyd | ||||
1713 | Lord Newport | |||||
1715 | Sir Robert Corbet | |||||
1722 | John Kynaston | Robert Lloyd | ||||
1727 | John Walcot | William Lacon Childe | ||||
1734 | Sir John Astley | Corbet Kynaston | ||||
1740 | Richard Lyster | |||||
1766 | Charles Baldwyn | |||||
1772 | Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn | |||||
1774 | Noel Hill | |||||
1780 | Sir Richard Hill | |||||
1784 | John Kynaston[9] | |||||
1806 | John Cotes | |||||
1821 | Rowland Hill[10] | |||||
1822 | John Cressett-Pelham |
- Constituency abolished (1832)
Elections
[edit]See also
[edit]- Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
- List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- Unreformed House of Commons
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pages 238 to 240,Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957)
- ^ Namier, Sir Lewis; Brooke, John, eds. (1964). "LYSTER, Richard (c.1691-1766), of Rowton Castle, Salop.". The House of Commons 1754-1790. The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Woodger, L. S. (1993). "Shropshire". In Clark, Linda; Rawcliffe, Carole; Roskell, J. S. (eds.). The House of Commons 1386–1421. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Woodger, L. S. (1993). "Corbet, Roger (d. 1430)". In Clark, Linda; Rawcliffe, Carole; Roskell, J. S. (eds.). The House of Commons 1386–1421. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Cavill, P. R. (2009). The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191610264.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Fuidge, N. M. (1982). "Shropshire". In Bindoff, S. T. (ed.). The House of Commons 1509–1558. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hasler, P. W. (1981). "Shropshire". In Hasler, P. W. (ed.). The House of Commons 1558–1603. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1892). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ^ Assumed surname of Powell in 1797. Created a Baronet in 1818.
- ^ Styled Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, from 1824.