South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Shropshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1832–1885
Number of members	two
Replaced by	Ludlow and Wellington
Created from	Bishop's Castle and Shropshire

South Shropshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire.

The constituency was abolished, along with North Shropshire, under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election. The county was then divided between four new single-member constituencies: Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington.

Members of Parliament

Election			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	The Earl of Darlington	Tory	Hon. Robert Clive	Tory
		1834		Conservative		Conservative
		1842 by-election	Viscount Newport	Conservative
		1854 by-election			Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive	Conservative
		1859 by-election			Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt	Conservative
		April 1865 by-election	Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert	Conservative
		July 1865			Robert Jasper More	Liberal
		1868			Edward Corbett	Conservative
		1876 by-election	John Edmund Severne	Conservative
		1877 by-election			Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bt	Conservative
		1885	Constituency abolished

Elections

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See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)