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 north-east of Salisbury. The population was 535 in 1831.

Members of Parliament

1295–1640

ParliamentFirst memberSecond member 1421 (Dec) John Denby William Bishop 1422 John SeymourJ. S. Roskell, The Commons in the Parliament of 1422 (Manchester University Press), p. 126 (see footnotes) 1432 William LudloweDates for Ludlowe in Ludlow family website 1433 William Ludlowe 1436 William Ludlowe John of Coombe 1437 William LudloweJohn of Coombe 1450–1451 John ErleyThomas Thorpe 1453 William Ludlowe 1455 William Ludlowe 1491 Robert Lytton 1510–1515No names known 1523 ?Henry Brydges ?Richard Brydges 1529 Henry Brydges Richard Brydges 1536 ?Henry Brydges ?Richard Brydges 1539 ? 1542 ? 1545 John Knight Thomas Hawes 1547 William Turner Ralph Cockerell 1553 (Mar) Humphrey Cavell ? 1553 (Oct) Richard Brydges Edmund Powell 1554 (Apr) John Winchcombe Edmund Powell 1554 (Nov) Sir John Price Arthur Allen 1555 John Story John Winchcombe 1558 Sir Richard Brydges Thomas Martin 1559 William Wightman Henry Sharington 1562–3 Griffin Curteys George Cope 1571 Christopher Wray James Colbrand 1572 James Colbrand Thomas Walkeden 1584 John Kingsmill Francis Button 1586 Ambrose Coppinger John Kingsmill 1588 Carew Raleigh Henry Hyde 1593 Edward Thornborough Chidiock Wardour 1597 Edmund Ludlow Richard Leake 1601 Robert Penruddocke James Kirton 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 1629–1640No Parliament convened

1640–1832 YearFirst memberFirst partySecond memberSecond party November 1640 William AshburnhamExpelled, December 1641RoyalistSir John EvelynParliamentarian 1642 Walter LongLong was disabled from sitting by an Order of the House on 27 January 1648, but re-instated on 8 June 1648Parliamentarian December 1648Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant 1653Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate January 1659 James Davy Richard Sherwyn May 1659Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump April 1660 William Prynne William Thomas July 1660 Silius Titus March 1661 William Ashburnham Geoffrey Palmer (died October 1661) December 1661 Sir Richard Browne 1669 Thomas Grey 1673 George Legge February 1679 Thomas Neale John Smith August 1679 John Garrard 1681 Sir John Talbot 1685 Henry Clerke 1689 John Smith John Deane 1690 Thomas Neale 1695 Colonel John Richmond Webb Tory 1698 Walter Kent 1699 Colonel John Richmond Webb Tory 1701 Edmund Richmond Webb 1705 Thomas Powell Walter Kent 1706 Major-General John Richmond WebbWebb 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 Tory 1708 Robert Bruce 1710 Major-General Thomas Pearce 1713 Robert Ferne 1714 John Ward 1715 General John Richmond Webb Tory John Ivory-Talbot 1722 Borlase Richmond Webb 1724 Anthony Cornish 1727 Charles Boone 1734 Peter Delmé Daniel Boone 1741 Charles Selwyn Thomas Hayward 1747 Thomas Farrington George Augustus Selwyn 1754 Sir John Bland Thomas Hayward 1755 Henry DigbySucceeded as The Lord Digby (in the Peerage of Ireland), 1757 1761 Thomas Whately John Paterson 1768 Lord Garlies Sir Peniston LambCreated The Lord Melbourne in June 1770, and The Viscount Melbourne in December 1781 (both titles being in the Peerage of Ireland) January 1774 Whitshed Keene October 1774 Lord George Gordon 1780 George Augustus Selwyn 1784 Nathaniel William Wraxall 1790 Hon. William Assheton Harbord 1791 Samuel Smith 1793 Nathaniel Newnham Tory 1796 Earl of Dalkeith Tory Thomas Everett Tory 1804 Magens Dorrien-Magens Tory 1810 Joseph Hague Everett Tory 1811 The Lord Headley 1812 Joseph Hague Everett Tory 1812 Sandford Graham Whig Joseph Birch Whig 1815 Charles Nicholas Pallmer Whig 1817 The Earl of Carhampton Tory 1818 (Sir) Sandford GrahamSucceeded as baronet, April 1824 Whig 1821 Earl of Brecknock Tory 1826 Edward Thomas Foley Tory George James Welbore Agar-Ellis Whig 1830 Sir Sandford Graham Whig 1832 Constituency abolished

Sources Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) 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)

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