Shrewsbury was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1290 as 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 1983. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire until 1885, when it was reduced to one Member of Parliament, reorganized and became a county constituency. It was abolished in 1983 and renamed Shrewsbury and Atcham.

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

until 1885

• Constituency created (1290)

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Samuel Jones		Thomas Jones
		1661	Robert Leighton
		1677			Sir Richard Corbet
		1679	Edward Kynaston
		1685			Sir Francis Edwards
		1689	Andrew Newport
		1690			Richard Mytton
		1694			John Kynaston
		1698	Richard Mytton
		1709			Sir Edward Leighton
		Jan. 1710	Thomas Jones
		Oct. 1710	Edward Cressett		Richard Mytton
		1713			Thomas Jones
		1714			Corbet Kynaston
		Febr. 1715	Thomas Jones
		Nov. 1715	Andrew Corbet
		1722	Richard Lyster
		1723	Sir Richard Corbet		Orlando Bridgeman
		1727	Richard Lyster		Sir John Astley
		1734	William Kinaston		Sir Richard Corbet
		1749	Thomas Hill
		1754			Robert More
		1761			Robert Clive
		1768	Noel Hill
		1774	Sir Charlton Leighton
		March 8 1775	William Pulteney
		March 17 1775			John Corbet
		1780			Sir Charlton Leighton
		1784			John Hill
		1796			Walter Hill
		1805	John Hill
		1806	Henry Grey Bennet
		1807	Thomas Jones
		1811	Henry Grey Bennet
		1812			Sir Rowland Hill
		1814			Richard Lyster
		1819			John Mytton
		1820			Panton Corbett
		1826	Robert Aglionby Slaney
		1830			Richard Jenkins
		1832			Sir John Hanmer
		1835	John Cressett-Pelham
		1837	Richard Jenkins		Robert Aglionby Slaney
		1841	George Tomline		Benjamin Disraeli
		1847	Edward Holmes Baldock		Robert Aglionby Slaney
		1852			George Tomline
		1857	Robert Aglionby Slaney
		1862	Henry Robertson	Liberal
		1865	William James Clement
		1868			James Figgins
		1870	Douglas Straight	Conservative
		1874	Charles Cecil Cotes	Liberal	Henry Robertson	Liberal

• Constituency reduced to one Member (1885)

1885-1983

• Constituency reorganized (1885)

Year		Member	Party
	1885	James Watson
	1892	Henry David Greene
	1906	Sir Clement Lloyd Hill
	1913	George Butler Lloyd
	1922	Viscount Sandon	Conservative
	1923	Joseph Sunlight	Liberal
	1924	Viscount Sandon	Conservative
	1929	George Arthur Victor Duckworth	Conservative
	1945	Sir John Langford-Holt	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished: see Shrewsbury and Atcham

Election results

See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

References