Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Shropshire is a former United Kingdom

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constituency. It 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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, 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 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

Parliament	First member	Second 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.... >-	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.... >-	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.... >-	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.... >-	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

Parliament	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth 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

	First member	Second member	Second 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	Sir Edward Leighton
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...	Richard Corbet
1705	Sir Robert Corbet	Robert Lloyd
1708	Sir Robert Corbet	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	John Kynaston	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)

MPs 1290-1653

MPs 1654-1660

MPS 1660-1832

See also