Ludgershall was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire, England, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons from 1295 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act.
Ludgershall is a town 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Salisbury. The population was 535 in 1831.
Members of Parliament
1295–1640
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1421 (Dec) | John Denby | William Bishop[1] |
| 1422 | John Seymour[2] | |
| 1432 | William Ludlowe[3] | |
| 1433 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1436 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1437 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1450–1451 | John Erley | Thomas Thorpe[4] |
| 1453 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1455 | William Ludlowe | |
| 1491 | Robert Lytton[5] | |
| 1510–1515 | No names known[6] | |
| 1523 | ?Henry Brydges | ?Richard Brydges[6] |
| 1529 | Henry Brydges | Richard Brydges[6] |
| 1536 | ?Henry Brydges | ?Richard Brydges[6] |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | John Knight | Thomas Hawes[6] |
| 1547 | William Turner | Ralph Cockerell[6] |
| 1553 (Mar) | Humphrey Cavell | ?[6] |
| 1553 (Oct) | Richard Brydges | Edmund Powell[6] |
| 1554 (Apr) | John Winchcombe | Edmund Powell[6] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Sir John Price | Arthur Allen[6] |
| 1555 | John Story | John Winchcombe[6] |
| 1558 | Sir Richard Brydges | Thomas Martin[6] |
| 1559 | William Wightman | Henry Sharington[7] |
| 1562–3 | Griffin Curteys | George Cope[7] |
| 1571 | Christopher Wray | James Colbrand[7] |
| 1572 | James Colbrand | Thomas Walkeden[7] |
| 1584 | John Kingsmill | Francis Button[7] |
| 1586 | Ambrose Coppinger | John Kingsmill[7] |
| 1588 | Carew Raleigh | Henry Hyde[7] |
| 1593 | Edward Thornborough | Chidiock Wardour[7] |
| 1597 | Edmund Ludlow | Richard Leake[7] |
| 1601 | Robert Penruddocke | James Kirton[7] |
| 1604–1611 | James Kirton | Henry Ludlow |
| 1614 | Charles Danvers | James Kirton |
| 1621–1622 | Alexander Chocke | William Sotwell |
| 1624 | Edward Kyrton | William Sotwell |
| 1625 | Robert Pye | Sir Thomas Hinton |
| 1626 | Sir William Walter | Sir Thomas Jaye/Sir Thomas Hinton Unresolved double return |
| 1628 | John Selden | Sir Thomas Lay |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliament convened | |
1640–1832
Sources
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)[14]
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)[15]
- J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
- J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
- Henry Stooks Smith, "The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847" (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig – Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
Notes and references
- ^ "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ J. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes)
- ^ Dates for Ludlowe in Ludlow family website "Ludlow genealogy: Birth, marriage and death certificates from the UK collected by Keith Ludlow". Archived from the original on 27 December 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Thorpe, Thomas, speaker of the House of Commons". Oxford DNB. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Cavill. The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
- ^ Expelled, December 1641
- ^ Long was disabled from sitting by an Order of the House on 27 January 1648, but re-instated on 8 June 1648
- ^ Webb was re-elected in 1713, but had also been elected for Newport (Isle of Wight), which he chose to represent, and did not sit for Ludgershall in this Parliament
- ^ Succeeded as The Lord Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1757
- ^ Created The Lord Melbourne in June 1770, and The Viscount Melbourne in December 1781 (both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland)
- ^ Succeeded as baronet, April 1824
- ^ Beatson, Robert (1807). "A Chronological Register of Both Houses of the British Parliament, from the Union in 1708, to the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in 1807".
- ^ "Titles A-Z". Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
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