Ludgershall was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
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Ludgershall is a town 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Salisbury. The population was 535 in 1831.
1295–1640
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1640–1832
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- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)[14]
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)[15]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
J. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes) Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
Long was disabled from sitting by an Order of the House on 27 January 1648, but re-instated on 8 June 1648
Webb was re-elected in 1713, but had also been elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ludgershall in this Parliament Created The Lord Melbourne in June 1770, and The Viscount Melbourne in December 1781 (both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland) Succeeded as baronet, April 1824