Bishop's Castle (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Bishop's Castle Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1290 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
Bishop's Castle was a former borough constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1290 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.
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- Constituency created (1290)
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | William Oakeley | Edmund Waring | ||||
| 1679 | Richard Scriven | |||||
| 1681 | Sir Richard Mason | Richard More | ||||
| 1685 | Edmund Waring | Francis Charlton | ||||
| 1689 | Richard More | Walter Waring | ||||
| Mr. 1690 | William Oakeley | Richard Mason | ||||
| May 1690 | Walter Waring | |||||
| Mr. 1695 | Richard More | |||||
| Oct. 1695 | Charles Mason | |||||
| 1698 | Sir William Brownlow | |||||
| Jan. 1701 | George Walcot | |||||
| Nov. 1701 | Henry Brett | |||||
| 1706 | Lord Newport | |||||
| 1708 | Richard Harnage | Charles Mason | ||||
| 1710 | Sir Robert Mason | |||||
| 1715 | Charles Mason | |||||
| 1719 | Sir Matthew Decker | |||||
| 1722 | William Peere Williams | Bowater Vernon | ||||
| 1726 | Charles Mason | |||||
| 1727 | Robert More | John Plumptre | ||||
| 1734 | Edward Kynaston | |||||
| 1741 | Marquess of Carnarvon | Andrew Hill | ||||
| 1744 | Viscount Trentham | |||||
| 1747 | Samuel Child | John Robinson Lytton | ||||
| 1753 | John Dashwood-King | |||||
| 1754 | Barnaby Backwell | |||||
| 1755 | Walter Waring | |||||
| 1759 | Henry Grenville | |||||
| 1761 | Francis Child | Peregrine Cust | ||||
| 1763 | George Clive | |||||
| 1768 | William Clive | |||||
| 1770 | Alexander Wedderburn | |||||
| 1774 | Henry Strachey | |||||
| 1778 | Alexander Wedderburn | |||||
| 1779 | William Clive | |||||
| 1780 | Henry Strachey | |||||
| 1802 | John Robinson | |||||
| 1819 | Douglas James William Kinnaird | |||||
| 1820 | William Holmes | Edward Rogers | ||||
| 1830 | Frederick Hamilton Cornewall | |||||
| 1831 | James Lewis Knight-Bruce | |||||
- Constituency abolished / disenfranchised (1832)
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
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