Bridgnorth (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Bridgnorth Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1295 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two until 1868, then one |
Bridgnorth was a constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1295 as a borough constituency. It 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 1885. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one Member of Parliament. It was abolished in 1885.
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[edit] Boundaries
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] 1295-1640
- 1621-1622: Sir John Hayward
- 1621-1622: William Whitmore
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[edit] 1640-1868
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1640 | Edward Acton | Royalist | ? | |||
| November 1640 | (Sir) Thomas Whitmore [1] | Royalist | ||||
| February 1644 | Acton and Whitmore disabled to sit - both seats vacant | |||||
| 1646 | Robert Clive | Robert Charlton | ||||
| December 1648 | Clive and Charlton not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge | |||||
| 1653 | Bridgnorth was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | William Crown | Bridgnorth had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| 1656 | Edward Waring | |||||
| January 1659 | Edmund Waring | John Humphrys | ||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | Sir Walter Acton | John Bennet | ||||
| 1661 | Sir William Whitmore | |||||
| 1663 | Sir Thomas Whitmore | |||||
| 1685 | Roger Pope | |||||
| 1689 | Sir Edward Acton | Tory | ||||
| 1694 | Roger Pope | |||||
| 1702 | Sir Humphrey Brigges | |||||
| 1705 | William Whitmore | |||||
| 1710 | Whitmore Acton | Richard Cresswell | Tory | |||
| 1713 | William Whitmore | John Weaver | ||||
| 1725 | St John Charlton | |||||
| 1734 | Thomas Whitmore | Grey James Grove | ||||
| 1741 | William Whitmore | |||||
| 1747 | Arthur Weaver | |||||
| 1754 | Hon. John Grey | Major William Whitmore [2] | ||||
| 1768 | The Lord Pigot | |||||
| 1771 | Thomas Whitmore | |||||
| 1778 | Vice Admiral Hugh Pigot [3] | Whig | ||||
| 1784 | Isaac Hawkins Browne | |||||
| 1795 | John Whitmore | |||||
| 1806 | Thomas Whitmore | |||||
| 1812 | Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson | |||||
| 1818 | Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones | |||||
| 1820 | William Wolryche-Whitmore | |||||
| 1831 | James Foster | |||||
| 1832 | Robert Pigot | Thomas Charlton Whitmore | ||||
| 1837 | Henry Hanbury Tracy | |||||
| 1838 | Sir Robert Pigot | |||||
| 1852 | Henry Whitmore | |||||
| 1853 | John Pritchard | |||||
| 1865 | Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Bt. | |||||
| 1866 | Henry Whitmore | |||||
| 1868 | Representation reduced to one Member | |||||
[edit] 1868-1885
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1868 | Henry Whitmore | ||
| 1870 | William Henry Foster | ||
| 1885 | Constituency abolished | ||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- David Hayton, 'The Country Party in the House of Commons 1698-1699', Parliamentary History, volume 6 (1987), 141-63
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
