| Bishop's Castle | |
| Type: | borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1290 |
| Abolished: | 1832 |
| Elects Howmany: | 2 |
| Borough: | Bishop's Castle |
| Next: | South Shropshire |
Bishop's Castle was a borough constituency in Shropshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The market town of Bishop's Castle became a parliamentary borough in 1584 and was a constituency of the House of Commons of England until 1707, of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two burgesses.
The historian Lewis Namier claimed that in the middle of the eighteenth century it was the one notoriously corrupt parliamentary borough in Shropshire.[1] It was abolished under the Reform Act 1832.
| Parliament | First member | Second member | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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[2] | online edn, Jan 2008 | Thomas Hitchcock |
| 1621 | Gilbert Cornwall | ||
| 1624 | Sir Robert Howard | Richard Oakeley | |
| 1625 | William Oakeley | Edward Waring | |
| 1626 | William Oakeley | 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 | William Oakeley | ||
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