# Ludgershall (UK Parliament constituency)

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 |
| 1422 | John Seymour |
| 1432 | William Ludlowe |
| 1433 | William Ludlowe |
| 1436 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1437 | William Ludlowe | John of Coombe |
| 1450–1451 | John Erley | Thomas Thorpe |
| 1453 | William Ludlowe |
| 1455 | William Ludlowe |
| 1491 | Robert Lytton | |
| 1510–1515 | No names known | No 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 |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliament convened | No Parliament convened |

### 1640–1832

| Year | | First member | First party | | Second member | Second party |
| November 1640 | | William Ashburnham | Royalist | | Sir John Evelyn | Parliamentarian |
| 1642 | | Walter Long | Parliamentarian | | Sir John Evelyn | Parliamentarian |
| December 1648 | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant | Long and Evelyn excluded in Pride's Purge – both seats vacant |
| 1653 | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | Ludgershall was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
| January 1659 | | James Davy | | | Richard Sherwyn | |
| May 1659 | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump | Ludgershall was not represented in the restored Rump |
| April 1660 | | William Prynne | | | William Thomas | |
| July 1660 | | Silius Titus | | | William Thomas | |
| March 1661 | | William Ashburnham | | | Geoffrey Palmer (died October 1661) | |
| December 1661 | | William Ashburnham | | | Sir Richard Browne | |
| 1669 | | William Ashburnham | | | Thomas Grey | |
| 1673 | | William Ashburnham | | | George Legge | |
| February 1679 | | Thomas Neale | | | John Smith | |
| August 1679 | | Thomas Neale | | | John Garrard | |
| 1681 | | Thomas Neale | | | Sir John Talbot | |
| 1685 | | Thomas Neale | | | Henry Clerke | |
| 1689 | | John Smith | | | John Deane | |
| 1690 | | Thomas Neale | | | John Deane | |
| 1695 | | Thomas Neale | | | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory |
| 1698 | | Thomas Neale | | | Walter Kent | |
| 1699 | | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Walter Kent | |
| 1701 | | Colonel John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Edmund Richmond Webb | |
| 1705 | | Thomas Powell | | | Walter Kent | |
| 1706 | | Major-General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Walter Kent | |
| 1708 | | Major-General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Robert Bruce | |
| 1710 | | Major-General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Major-General Thomas Pearce | |
| 1713 | | Major-General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Robert Ferne | |
| 1714 | | John Ward | | | Robert Ferne | |
| 1715 | | General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | John Ivory-Talbot | |
| 1722 | | General John Richmond Webb | Tory | | Borlase Richmond Webb | |
| 1724 | | Anthony Cornish | | | Borlase Richmond Webb | |
| 1727 | | Charles Boone | | | Borlase Richmond Webb | |
| 1734 | | Peter Delmé | | | Daniel Boone | |
| 1741 | | Charles Selwyn | | | Thomas Hayward | |
| 1747 | | Thomas Farrington | | | George Augustus Selwyn | |
| 1754 | | Sir John Bland | | | Thomas Hayward | |
| 1755 | | Henry Digby | | | Thomas Hayward | |
| 1761 | | Thomas Whately | | | John Paterson | |
| 1768 | | Lord Garlies | | | Sir Peniston Lamb | |
| January 1774 | | Whitshed Keene | | | Sir Peniston Lamb | |
| October 1774 | | Lord George Gordon | | | Sir Peniston Lamb | |
| 1780 | | George Augustus Selwyn | | | Sir Peniston Lamb | |
| 1784 | | George Augustus Selwyn | | | Nathaniel William Wraxall | |
| 1790 | | George Augustus Selwyn | | | Hon. William Assheton Harbord | |
| 1791 | | Samuel Smith | | | Hon. William Assheton Harbord | |
| 1793 | | Nathaniel Newnham | Tory | | Hon. William Assheton Harbord | |
| 1796 | | Earl of Dalkeith | Tory | | Thomas Everett | Tory |
| 1804 | | Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | | Thomas Everett | Tory |
| 1810 | | Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | | Joseph Hague Everett | Tory |
| 1811 | | Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | | The Lord Headley | |
| 1812 | | Magens Dorrien-Magens | Tory | | Joseph Hague Everett | Tory |
| 1812 | | Sandford Graham | Whig | | Joseph Birch | Whig |
| 1815 | | Charles Nicholas Pallmer | Whig | | Joseph Birch | Whig |
| 1817 | | The Earl of Carhampton | Tory | | Joseph Birch | Whig |
| 1818 | | The Earl of Carhampton | Tory | | (Sir) Sandford Graham | Whig |
| 1821 | | Earl of Brecknock | Tory | | (Sir) Sandford Graham | Whig |
| 1826 | | Edward Thomas Foley | Tory | | George James Welbore Agar-Ellis | Whig |
| 1830 | | Edward Thomas Foley | Tory | | Sir Sandford Graham | Whig |
| 1832 | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | Constituency abolished | 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)
* Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)