Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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Shropshire is a former United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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 Parliamentary
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 constituency. It was a constituency
United Kingdom constituencies
In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 of the House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

 of the Parliament of England
Parliament of England
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, then of the Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
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 from 1707 to 1800, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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 from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire
Knights of the Shire
From the creation of the Parliament of England in mediaeval times until 1826 each county of England and Wales sent two Knights of the Shire as members of Parliament to represent the interests of the county, when the number of knights from Yorkshire was increased to four...

. It was divided between the constituencies of North Shropshire
North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Shropshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From its first creation in 1832 to the abolition of the first creation in 1885 it elected two Knights of the Shire...

 and South Shropshire
South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)
South Shropshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire....

 in 1832.

MPs 1290-1653

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1298 Sir Peter de Eyton
1298 William de Hodnet
1301 Sir Peter de Eyton
1305 Sir Richard de Harley
1307 Ludlow
1309 Roger Corbet
1312–1318 Robert de Leighton
1320 Sir William de Sondford, Kt
1328 Ludlow
1337 Hopton
1361 Ludlow
1364 Hopton
1369–1383 Brian Cornwall (6 times)
1371–1382 Sir Robert Kendale (5 times)
1373 Ludlow
1377 Ludlow
1377 Sir William Chetwynd
1378 Sir Edward Acton
1380 Sir Peter Carswell
1382 Sir Peter Carswell
1384 Sir Edward Acton
1386 Edward Acton Hamon Peshale
1388 (Feb) Sir William Hugford Sir Richard Ludlow
1388 (Sep) Edward Acton Sir Hugh Cheyne
1390 (Jan) Thomas Lee Sir Richard Ludlow
1390 (Nov) Thomas Whitton Sir Richard Ludlow
1391 Sir Hugh Cheyne Sir Roger Corbet
1393 John Darras Sir William Hugford
1394 Sir Adam Peshale Sir William Hugford
1395 John Longford Thomas Young
1397 (Jan) William Lee Fulk Sprenghose
1397 (Sep) Richard Chelmswick Sir Fulk Pembridge
1399 John Burley Thomas Young
1401 John Burley Sir Hugh Cheyne
1402 Sir John Cornwall Sir Adam Peshale
1404 (Jan) John Burley George Hawkstone
1404 (Oct) John Burley John Darras
1406 David Holbache Thomas Whitton
1407 Sir John Cornwall David Holbache
1410 John Burley David Holbache
1411 John Burley Sir Adam Peshale
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) Robert Corbet Richard Lacon
1414 (Apr) David Holbache John Wele
1414 (Nov) David Holbache Richard Lacon
1415 Hugh Burgh George Hawkstone
1416 (Mar) Hugh Burgh Edward Sprenghose
1416 (Oct)
1417 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

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Richard Fox
1419 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

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Robert Corbet
1420 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

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John Wynnebury
1421 (May) William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

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Hugh Burgh
1421 (Dec) (Sir) Richard Lacon John Stapleton
1422 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

 
Hugh Burgh
1425 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1427 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1429 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1431 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1432 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1433 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1437 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1439 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1442 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1445 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1449 (Nov) William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1450 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1455 William Burley
William Burley
William Burley was MP for Shropshire nineteen times and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.He was the eldest son of John Burley of Broncroft in Corvedale, who was himself six times MP for Shropshire....

1510–1523 No Names Known
1529 Sir Thomas Cornwall John Blount
1536 Richard Trentham ?
1539 Richard Mytton John Corbet
1542
1545 Sir George Blount Richard Mytton
1547 Sir George Blount Richard Newport
1553 (Mar) Richard Mytton Thomas Vernon
1553 (Oct) Richard Mytton Edward Leighton
1554 (Apr) William Charlton Francis Kynaston
1554 (Nov) Richard Mytton William Gatacre
1555 Sir Andrew Corbet Sir Henry Stafford
1558 Richard Corbet Thomas Fermor
1559 (Jan) Sir Andrew Corbet Sir Arthur Mainwaring
1562–1563 Richard Corbet , died
and replaced 1566 by
Robert Corbet
Sir Edward Leighton
1571 Sir George Blount George Bromley
1572 (Apr) George Bromley George Mainwaring
1584 (Nov) Walter Leveson Francis Bromley
1586 (Oct) Richard Corbet II Walter Leveson
1588 (Nov) (Sir) Walter Leveson Richard Leveson
1593 Francis Newport II Sir Robert Needham (later )
1597 (Sep) Sir Henry Bromley
Henry Bromley (died 1615)
Sir Henry Bromley was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1604....

Thomas Leighton
1601 (Sep) John Egerton Roger Owen
1604 Sir Richard Lewson Sir Robert Needham
1614 Sir Roger Owen Sir Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport was an English peer, politician and royalist.He was the son of Sir Francis Newport and his wife Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...

1621 Sir Robert Vernon Sir Francis Kynaston
1624 Sir Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport was an English peer, politician and royalist.He was the son of Sir Francis Newport and his wife Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...

Sir Andrew Corbet
1625 Sir Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport was an English peer, politician and royalist.He was the son of Sir Francis Newport and his wife Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...

Sir Andrew Corbet
1626 Sir Roland Cotton Sir Richard Lewson
1628 Sir Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport was an English peer, politician and royalist.He was the son of Sir Francis Newport and his wife Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...

Sir Andrew Corbet
1629–1640 No Parliaments convened
1640 (Apr) William Pierrepont Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet
Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet
Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War....

1640 (Nov) Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War....

, disabled Sep 1642
Sir Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport
Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport was an English peer, politician and royalist.He was the son of Sir Francis Newport and his wife Beatrix Lacon, daughter of Rowland Lacon. Newport was educated in Brasenose College, Oxford from 1604 to 1607 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...

. ennobled 1642
1645 Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke upon Tern
Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke upon Tern
Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet of Stoke upon Tern was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1646 and 1648....

Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Edwards was a regicide; he joined the parliamentarian side in the English Civil War, finding loyalty to Charles I pecuniarily unprofitable; he was M.P...

1648 Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Edwards was a regicide; he joined the parliamentarian side in the English Civil War, finding loyalty to Charles I pecuniarily unprofitable; he was M.P...

 
one member only
1653 William Bottrell Thomas Baker

MPs 1654-1660

ParliamentFirst memberSecond memberThird memberFourth member
1654 Humphrey Mackworth snr.
Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)
Humphrey Mackworth was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War....

Thomas Mytton
Thomas Mytton
-Life:Born about 1597, son of Richard Mytton of Halston, Shropshire, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Owen of Condover, he matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 11 May 1615, aged 18. He became a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1616...

Robert Corbet Philip Young
1658 Thomas Mackworth
Thomas Mackworth
Thomas Mackworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.Mackworth was the son of Humphrey Mackworth of Betton Grange...

Samuel More
Samuel More
Samuel More was at the centre of two separate controversies in seventeenth century England.- The Mayflower controversy :Samuel More married his cousin Katherine More at Shipton in Corvedale on February 4, 1610 . Katherine’s father, Jasper More, was master of Larden, a 1000-acre estate between Much...

Andrew Lloyd Philip Young
1659 Thomas Mackworth
Thomas Mackworth
Thomas Mackworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.Mackworth was the son of Humphrey Mackworth of Betton Grange...

Philip Young two members only

MPS 1660-1832

YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party
1660 Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1699.Whitmore was the son of Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Baronet of Apley, Shropshire and his wife Elizabeth Acton, daughter of Sir William Acton, Bt. His father had been MP for Bridgnorth...

 
Henry Vernon
Sir Henry Vernon, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Vernon, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1676.Vernon was the son of Sir Robert Vernon of Hodnet and his wife Mary Needham, daughter of Sir Robert Needham, of Shavington....

 
1661 Sir Francis Lawley
Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet
Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet was a politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679 and a courtier.Lawley was the son of Sir Thomas Lawley, 1st Baronet of Spoonhill, near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He inherited the Baronetcy and the estate on the death of his father in 1646...

 
Sir Richard Ottley 
1670 Hon. Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford PC , styled The Honourable from 1651 to 1694 and subsequently Viscount Newport until 1708, was an English peer and Whig politician.-Background:...

 
Whig
1679 Sir Vincent Corbet, 2nd Baronet 
1681 William Leveson-Gower 
1685 Edward Kynaston  John Walcot 
1689 Hon. Richard Newport
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford
Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford PC , styled The Honourable from 1651 to 1694 and subsequently Viscount Newport until 1708, was an English peer and Whig politician.-Background:...

 
Whig
1698 Sir Edward Leighton 
1699 Robert Lloyd 
Jan. 1701 Sir Humphrey Briggs 
Dec. 1701 Richard Corbet 
1702 Roger Owen
Roger Owen
Edward Roger Owen is a British historian who has authored several classic works on the history of the modern Middle East. His research interests include the economic history of the Middle East, especially Egypt, from 1800 to the present, as well as the political and socioeconomic history of the...

 
1705 Sir Robert Corbet  Robert Lloyd 
1708 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...

 
1710 John Kynaston  Robert Lloyd 
1713 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...

 
1715 Sir Robert Corbet 
1722 John Kynaston  Robert Lloyd 
1727 John Walcot  William Lacon Childe 
1734 Sir John Astley
Sir John Astley, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Astley, 2nd Baronet was a longtime British politician.The son of Sir Richard Astley, 1st Baronet and Henrietta Borlase, he was baptised in Patshull in Staffordshire on 24 January 1687. Already one year later, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy...

 
Corbet Kynaston 
1740 Richard Lyster 
1766 Charles Baldwyn 
1772 Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet was a Welsh politician and patron of the arts.Sir Watkin was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, to Frances Shackerley of Cheshire...

 
1774 Noel Hill
Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick
Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick , was an English landowner and politician.-Background:Hill was the son of Thomas Hill and Susanna Maria Noel, and was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1763, and a Master of Arts in 1766.-Political career:Hill sat...

 
1780 Sir Richard Hill
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone, was a prominent religious revivalist and Tory member of Parliament for Shropshire 1780-1806.He was the eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, 1st baronet, who was also a first cousin of Thomas Hill, of Tern, . His mother was Jane, dau. of Sir Brian Broughton,...

 
1784 John Kynaston 
1806 John Cotes 
1821 Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill
Rowland Hill, 2nd Viscount Hill , known as Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, between 1824 and 1842, was a British peer and politician.-Background:Hill was the son of Colonel John Hill, eldest son of Sir John Hill, 3rd Baronet...

 
1822 John Cressett-Pelham 
  • Constituency abolished (1832)

See also

  • Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
  • List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
  • Unreformed House of Commons
    Unreformed House of Commons
    The unreformed House of Commons is the name generally given to the British House of Commons as it existed before the Reform Act 1832.Until the Act of Union of 1707 joining the Kingdoms of Scotland and England , Scotland had its own Parliament, and the term refers to the House of Commons of England...

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