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

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

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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 448–449. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

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