Berkshire (UK Parliament Constituency) - Members of Parliament - Knights of The Shire 1660-1885

Knights of The Shire 1660-1885

Year First member First party Second member Second party
1660 Richard Powle Sir Robert Pye
1661 Hon. John Lovelace
1670 Richard Neville (the elder)
1677 Sir Humphrey Forster, 2nd Bt.
1678 The Earl of Stirling
March 1679 William Barker
August 1679 Richard Southby
1685 Sir Humphrey Forster, 2nd Bt.
1689 Lord Norreys Sir Henry Winchcombe, 2nd Bt.
1690 Sir Humphrey Forster, 2nd Bt. Tory
1695 Richard Neville (the younger) Whig
1701 Sir John Stonhouse, 3rd Bt. Tory
1710 Henry St John Tory
1712 Robert Packer (died 1727) Tory
1727 Winchcombe Howard Packer
1734 William Archer
1739 Peniston Powney
1746 Henry Pye
1757 Arthur Vansittart
1766 Hon. Thomas Craven
1772 John Elwes
1774 Christopher Griffith
1776 Winchcombe Henry Hartley
1784 George Vansittart Tory (1796) Henry James Pye
1790 Winchcombe Henry Hartley
1794 by-election Charles Dundas Whig
1812 Hon. Richard Neville Tory, Whig (by 1820)
1825 by-election Robert Palmer Tory
1831 Robert Throckmorton Whig
June 1832 by-election Robert Palmer Tory
December 1832 Third member added
election First member First party Second member Second party Third member Third party
1832 Robert Throckmorton Liberal Robert Palmer Conservative John Walter Liberal
1835 Philip Pusey Conservative
1837 The Viscount Barrington Conservative
1852 George Henry Vansittart Conservative
1857 Hon. Philip Pleydell-Bouverie Liberal
1859 Leicester Viney Vernon Conservative John Walter Liberal
1860 by-election Richard Benyon Conservative
1865 Robert Loyd-Lindsay Conservative Sir Charles Russell, 3rd Baronet Conservative
1868 John Walter Liberal
1876 by-election Philip Wroughton Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished

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