Radnorshire was created in 1542 as a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It elected one knight of the shire (MP) by the first past the post system.
By 1918, having too small a relative population the area was combined with that of Breconshire to form Brecon and Radnor constituency.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1542–1604 ParliamentMember1542 John Baker, died 1544 and replaced by John Price 1545 John Knill1547 Richard Blick1553 (Mar)1553 (Oct) Charles Vaughan1554 (Apr) John Bradshaw1554 (Nov) John Knill1555 Stephen Price1558 Ieuan Lewis1559 (Jan) Thomas Lewis1562–1563 Thomas Lewis1571 Walter Price1572-1581 Roger Vaughan1584-1585 Thomas Lewis1586Thomas Lewis1588 (Oct) Ieuan Lewis1593 James Price1597-1598 James Price1601 (Oct) James Price
MPs 1604–1918 ElectionMemberParty 1604-1611 James Price 1614 James Price 1621-1622: James Price 1624 James Price 1625 James Price 1626 James Price 1628 Richard Jones 1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned November 1640Charles PriceRoyalist October 1642Price disabled to sit - seat vacant1647Arthur Annesley December 1648Information not clear, sources say that Arthur continued to serve, however he might have been excluded in prides purge1653Radnorshire was not separately represented in the Barebones ParliamentRepresentation increased to two members, 16541654 George Gwynne and Henry Williams 1656 George Gwynne and Henry Williams Representation reverted to one member, 1659January 1659 Henry Williams May 1659Not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 George Gwynne 1661 Sir Richard Lloyd 1677 Richard Williams 1679 Rowland Gwynne 1685 Richard Williams 1689 Rowland Gwynne 1690 Richard Williams 1692 John Jeffreys 1698 Thomas Harley Tory 1715 Richard Fowler 1722 Sir Humphrey Howorth Whig 1755 Howell Gwynne 1761 Marquess of Carnarvon Whig 1768 Chase Price 1777 Thomas Johnes 1780 Thomas Johnes 1784 Thomas Johnes 1790 Thomas Johnes 1796 Walter Wilkins Whig 1828 Thomas Frankland Lewis Tory 1834 Conservative 1835 Walter Wilkins Whig 1840 Sir John Walsh Conservative 1868 Hon. Arthur Walsh Conservative 1880 Sir Richard Green-Price Liberal 1885 Hon. Arthur Walsh Conservative 1892 Frank EdwardsCreated a baronet, 1907 Liberal 1895 Powlett Milbank Conservative 1900 Frank Edwards Liberal January 1910 Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn Conservative December 1910 Sir Frank Edwards Liberal
Election results
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s Wilkins' death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Walsh was elevated to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Ormathwaite and causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Liberal: William LewisThe Times, 14 January 1914 Unionist: Herbert Clark Lewis, 2nd Baron Merthyr‘MERTHYR’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015; online edn, Feb 2015 accessed 27 Aug 2016
References
Sources D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913) F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989) J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949) W R Williams The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales