Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

Shropshire / Salop
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Extract from 1831 result: the dark blue area.
1290–1832
Seats	two
Replaced by	North Shropshire and South Shropshire

Boundaries

The county limits.

History

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

• Constituency created (1290)

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 of Caus
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	Edward Acton
1380	Sir Peter Carswell
1382	Sir Peter Carswell
1382 (Oct)	Edward Acton
1384 (Apr)	Edward Acton
1384 (Nov)	Edward Acton
1385	Thomas Lee of South Bache in Diddlebury	Sir William Hugford
1386	Edward Acton	Hamon Peshale[3]
1388 (Feb)	Sir William Hugford	Sir Richard Ludlow[3]
1388 (Sep)	Edward Acton	Sir Hugh Cheyne[3]
1390 (Jan)	Thomas Lee of South Bache in Diddlebury	Sir Richard Ludlow[3]
1390 (Nov)	Thomas Whitton	Sir Richard Ludlow[3]
1391	Sir Hugh Cheyne	Sir Roger Corbet[3]
1393	John Darras	Sir William Hugford[3]
1394	Sir Adam Peshale	Sir William Hugford[3]
1395	John Longford	Thomas Young[3]
1397 (Jan)	William Lee I	Fulk Sprenghose[3]
1397 (Sep)	Richard Chelmswick	Sir Fulk Pembridge[3]
1399	John Burley	Thomas Young[3]
1401	John Burley	Sir Hugh Cheyne[3]
1402	Sir John Cornwall	Sir Adam Peshale[3]
1404 (Jan)	John Burley	George Hawkstone[3]
1404 (Oct)	John Burley	John Darras[3]
1406	David Holbache	Thomas Whitton[3]
1407	Sir John Cornwall	David Holbache[3]
1410	John Burley	David Holbache[3]
1411	John Burley	Sir Adam Peshale[3]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Robert Corbet	Richard Lacon[3]
1414 (Apr)	David Holbache	John Wele[3]
1414 (Nov)	David Holbache	Richard Lacon[3]
1415	Hugh Burgh	George Hawkstone[3]
1416 (Mar)	Hugh Burgh	Edward Sprenghose[3]
1416 (Oct)
1417	William Burley	Richard Fox[3]
1419	William Burley	Robert Corbet[3]
1420	William Burley	John Wynnesbury[3]
1421 (May)	William Burley	Hugh Burgh[3]
1421 (Dec)	Sir Richard Lacon	John Stapleton[3]
1422	William Burley	Hugh Burgh
1423	Sir Richard Lacon
1425	William Burley	Hugh Burgh
1427	William Burley
1429	William Burley	Roger Corbet (died 1430)[4]
1431	William Burley	Sir Richard Lacon
1432	William Burley	John Wynnesbury
1433	William Burley	Sir Richard Lacon
1437	William Burley
1439	William Burley
1442	William Burley
1445	William Burley
1449 (Nov)	William Burley
1450	William Burley
1455	William Burley
1485	Sir Thomas Leighton
1491	Sir Gilbert Talbot	Sir Richard Corbet[5]
1510–1523	No names known[6]
1529	Sir Thomas Cornwall	John Blount[6]
1536	Richard Trentham	?[6]
1539	Richard Mytton	John Corbet[6]
1542
1545	Sir George Blount	Richard Mytton[6]
1547	Sir George Blount	Richard Newport[6]
1553 (Mar)	Richard Mytton	Thomas Vernon[6]
1553 (Oct)	Richard Mytton	Edward Leighton[6]
1554 (Apr)	William Charlton	Francis Kynaston[6]
1554 (Nov)	Richard Mytton	William Gatacre[6]
1555	Sir Andrew Corbet	Sir Henry Stafford[6]
1558	Richard Corbet	Thomas Fermor[6]
1559 (Jan)	Sir Andrew Corbet	Sir Arthur Mainwaring[7]
1562–1563	Richard Corbet, died and replaced 1566 by Robert Corbet	Sir Edward Leighton[7]
1571	Sir George Blount	George Bromley[7]
1572 (Apr)	George Bromley	George Mainwaring[7]
1584 (Nov)	Walter Leveson	Francis Bromley[7]
1586 (Oct)	Richard Corbet II	Walter Leveson[7]
1588 (Nov)	(Sir) Walter Leveson	Richard Leveson[7]
1593	Francis Newport II	Sir Robert Needham[7]
1597 (Sep)	Sir Henry Bromley	Thomas Leighton[7]
1601 (Sep)	John Egerton	Roger Owen[7]
1604	Sir Richard Leveson	Sir Robert Needham
1606	Sir Roger Owen	Sir Robert Needham
1614	Sir Roger Owen	Sir Richard Newport
1621	Sir Robert Vernon	Sir Francis Kynaston [8]
1624	Sir Richard Newport	Sir Andrew Corbet
1625	Sir Richard Newport	Sir Andrew Corbet
1626	Sir Rowland Cotton	Sir Richard Leveson
1628	Sir Richard Newport	Sir Andrew Corbet
1629–1640	No Parliaments convened
1640 (Apr)	William Pierrepont	Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet
1640 (Nov)	Sir Richard Lee, 2nd Baronet, disabled Sep 1642	Sir Richard Newport. ennobled 1642
1645	Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke upon Tern	Humphrey Edwards
1648	Humphrey Edwards	one member only
1653	William Bottrell	Thomas Baker

MPs 1654–1660

Parliament	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member
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

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		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

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
• List of former United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

Notes

1. Pages 238 to 240,Lewis Namier, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III (2nd edition - London: St Martin's Press, 1957)
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Cavill, P. R. (2009). The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191610264.
6. Fuidge, N. M. (1982). "Shropshire". In Bindoff, S. T. (ed.). The House of Commons 1509–1558. The History of Parliament Trust.
7. Hasler, P. W. (1981). "Shropshire". In Hasler, P. W. (ed.). The House of Commons 1558–1603. The History of Parliament Trust.
8. Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1892). "Kynaston, Francis" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
9. Assumed surname of Powell in 1797. Created a Baronet in 1818.
10. Styled Sir Rowland Hill, Bt, from 1824.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)