Bishop's Castle (UK Parliament constituency)

Bishop's Castle
Bishop's Castle
Bishop's Castle is a small market town in Shropshire, England, and formerly its smallest borough. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,630. Bishop's Castle is east of the Wales-England border, about north-west of Ludlow and about south-west of Shrewsbury. To the south is Clun...

was a borough constituency in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

represented in the House of Commons

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of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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It was founded in 1584 and was a constituency

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of the House of Commons

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of the Parliament of England

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until 1707, then of the Parliament of Great Britain

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from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

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from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two burgesses.

MPs 1584-1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1584	Thomas Jukes	John Cole
1586	Charles Walcot	Thomas Darrell
1588	Charles Walcot	Alexander King
1593	Francis Beavans	Alexander King
1597	Hayward Townsend	Edmund Baynham
1601	Hayward Townsend	Alexander King
1604	William Twyneho	Samuel Lewknor
1614	Edward Littleton Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton of Mounslow Edward, Baron Littleton , from Munslow in Shropshire, was a Chief Justice of North Wales. He was descended from the judge and legal scholar, Thomas de Littleton. His father, also Edward, had been Chief Justice of North Wales before him.-Education and career:He was educated at Oxford before...	Thomas Hitchcock
1621	Francis Roberts	Gilbert Cornwall
1624	Sir Robert Howard Robert Howard (royalist) Sir Robert Howard was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved with a scandal when his mistress Lady Purbeck was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned to explain her pregnancies to the Star Chamber...	Richard Oakley
1625	William Oakley	Edward Waring
1626	William Oakley	Edward Waring
1628	Sir Robert Howard Robert Howard (royalist) Sir Robert Howard was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved with a scandal when his mistress Lady Purbeck was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned to explain her pregnancies to the Star Chamber...	Sir Edward Fox
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr)	Sir Robert Howard Robert Howard (royalist) Sir Robert Howard was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved with a scandal when his mistress Lady Purbeck was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned to explain her pregnancies to the Star Chamber...	Richard Moor
1640 (Nov)	Sir Robert Howard Robert Howard (royalist) Sir Robert Howard was an English landowner, member of parliament, and Royalist soldier. He was involved with a scandal when his mistress Lady Purbeck was found guilty of adultery and was twice summoned to explain her pregnancies to the Star Chamber...	Richard Moor
1645	Isaiah Thomas	John Corbet
1648	Isaiah Thomas	John Corbet
1653	Bishop's Castle not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654	Bishop's Castle not represented in 1st Protectorate Parliament
1656	Bishop's Castle not represented in 2nd Protectorate Parliament
1659	Samuel More	William Oakeley

MPs 1660-1832

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1660	William Oakeley		Edmund Waring
1679	Richard Scriven		Edmund Waring
1681	Sir Richard Mason		Richard Moore
1685	Edmund Waring		Francis Charlton
1689	Richard More		Walter Waring
Mr. 1690	William Oakeley		Richard Mason
May 1690	William Oakeley		Walter Waring
Mr. 1695	Richard More		Walter Waring
Oct. 1695	Richard More		Charles Mason
1698	Sir William Brownlow Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet was a British Member of Parliament.-Life:Brownlow was the younger son of Sir Richard Brownlow, 2nd Baronet, and Elizabeth Freke. He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
Jan. 1701	George Walcot
Nov. 1701	Henry Brett Henry Brett (MP) Henry Brett was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....
1706			Lord Newport Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford was an English peer and Whig politician.The oldest son of the 2nd Earl of Bradford and Mary Wilbraham was educated at Christ Church, Oxford...	Whig British Whig Party The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...
1708	Richard Harnage		Charles Mason
1710			Sir Robert Raymond Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond PC was a British judge.Robert Raymond was the son of the judge Thomas Raymond. He was educated at Eton and Christ's College, Cambridge. Said to have been admitted to Gray's Inn aged nine, he became a barrister in 1697 and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1710...
1715			Charles Mason
1719	Sir Matthew Decker		Charles Mason
1722	William Peere Williams William Peere Williams (1664-1736) William Peere Williams MP was a politician in Great Britain. He was Member of Parliament for Bishop's Castle from 1722 to 1727...		Bowater Vernon
1726			Charles Mason
1727	Robert More Robert More Sir Robert More was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1601.More was the eldest son of Sir George More of Loseley and his first wife Anne Poynings, daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings. He enterd Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1595 and was awarded BA in 1598. In 1600 he...		John Plumptre
1734			Edward Kynaston
1741	Marquess of Carnarvon Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos Henry Brydges, 2nd Duke of Chandos, MP , known from 1727 to 1744 by his courtesy title Marquess of Carnarvon, was the second son of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos PC and his first wife Mary Lake...		Andrew Hill
1744	Viscount Trentham Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford PC , known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician.-Background:...		Andrew Hill
1747	Samuel Child		John Robinson Lytton
1753	John Dashwood-King Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet Sir John Dashwood-King, 3rd Baronet was an English country gentleman. Born John Dashwood, he adopted the additional surname of King by the terms of his uncle Dr. John King's will....		John Robinson Lytton
1754			Barnaby Backwell
1755			Walter Waring
1759			Henry Grenville Henry Grenville Henry Grenville was a British diplomat and politician.Grenville was the son of Richart Grenville born into a family of politicians, one of his elder brothers was Earl Temple, another a government minister, another was Lord of Trade and Cofferer of the Household, while another brother George...
1761	Francis Child		Peregrine Cust Peregrine Cust (1723–1785) Peregrine Cust was a British politician and Member of Parliament .-Family and early life:Cust was born in 1723 and baptized on 19 May 1723. He was the fourth son of Sir Richard Cust, 2nd Baronet, and a younger brother of Sir John Cust and Francis Cust, both future politicians...
1763	George Clive George Clive (MP) George Clive was a British politician.-Background:Clive was the son of Reverend Benjamin Clive, Vicar of Duffield, Derbyshire, and Susannah...
1768			William Clive
1770			Alexander Wedderburn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801.-Life:He was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn , and was born in East Lothian....
1774			Henry Strachey Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was a British civil servant and politician.Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, Somerset, and his first wife Helen, daughter of Robert Clerk, a Scottish physician. His grandfather was the geologist John Strachey and his great-grandfather...
1778			Alexander Wedderburn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801.-Life:He was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn , and was born in East Lothian....
1779	William Clive
1780			Henry Strachey Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was a British civil servant and politician.Strachey was the eldest son of Henry Strachey, of Sutton Court, Somerset, and his first wife Helen, daughter of Robert Clerk, a Scottish physician. His grandfather was the geologist John Strachey and his great-grandfather...
1802			John Robinson
1819			Douglas James William Kinnaird
1820	William Holmes William Holmes (1779-1851) William Holmes was a British Tory politician of the early nineteenth century, and an MP for 28 years....	Tory	Edward Rogers
1830	Frederick Hamilton Cornewall
1831	James Lewis Knight-Bruce

Constituency abolished / disenfranchised (1832)

MPs 1584-1660

MPs 1660-1832

See also