Bishop's Castle (UK Parliament constituency)
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Bishop's Castle | |
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Former borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1290–1832 | |
Seats | two |
Replaced by | South Shropshire |
Bishop's Castle was a borough constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1584 and was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, 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 burgesses.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1584–1660
Parliament | First member | Second member |
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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 [1] | Thomas Hitchcock |
1621 | Francis Roberts | Gilbert Cornwall |
1624 | Sir Robert Howard[2] | Richard Oakeley |
1625 | William Oakley | Edward Waring |
1626 | William Oakley | Edward Waring |
1628 | Sir Robert Howard | Sir Edward Fox |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
1640 (Apr) | Sir Robert Howard | Richard Moor |
1640 (Nov) | Sir Robert Howard | 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
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1660 | William Oakeley | Edmund Waring | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1679 | Richard Scriven | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1681 | Sir Richard Mason | Richard More | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1685 | Edmund Waring | Francis Charlton | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1689 | Richard More | Walter Waring | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Mr. 1690 | William Oakeley | Richard Mason | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | May 1690 | Walter Waring | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | Mr. 1695 | Richard More | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"| | Oct. 1695 | Charles Mason | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1698 | Sir William Brownlow | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | Jan. 1701 | George Walcot | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | Nov. 1701 | Henry Brett | ||||
style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | | 1706 | Henry Newport | Whig | |||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1708 | Richard Harnage | Charles Mason | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1710 | Sir Robert Raymond | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1715 | Charles Mason | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1719 | Sir Matthew Decker | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1722 | William Peere Williams | Bowater Vernon | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1726 | Charles Mason | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color"| | 1727 | Robert More | John Plumptre | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1734 | Edward Kynaston | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1741 | Marquess of Carnarvon | Andrew Hill | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1744 | Viscount Trentham | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1747 | Samuel Child | John Robinson Lytton | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"| | 1753 | John Dashwood-King | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1754 | Barnaby Backwell | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1755 | Walter Waring | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1759 | Henry Grenville | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1761 | Francis Child | Peregrine Cust | ||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5"| | 1763 | George Clive | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1768 | William Clive | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1770 | Alexander Wedderburn | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1774 | Henry Strachey | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"| | 1778 | Alexander Wedderburn | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"| | 1779 | William Clive | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1780 | Henry Strachey | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1802 | John Robinson | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1819 | Douglas James William Kinnaird | ||||
style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | | style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"| | 1820 | William Holmes | Tory | Edward Rogers | |
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1830 | Frederick Hamilton Cornewall | ||||
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | | 1831 | James Lewis Knight-Bruce |
- Constituency abolished / disenfranchised (1832)
Election results
See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
- List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
- Unreformed House of Commons
References
- ^ Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Littleton, Edward, Baron Littleton (1589–1645)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004|| online edn, Jan 2008
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .