Montgomeryshire

County

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
Available from Boydell and Brewer

Background Information

Number of voters:

about 1,300 in 1774

Elections

DateCandidate
11 Feb. 1715EDWARD VAUGHAN
9 Jan. 1719PRICE DEVEREUX vice Vaughan, deceased
17 Apr. 1722PRICE DEVEREUX
18 Sept. 1727PRICE DEVEREUX
10 May 1734PRICE DEVEREUX
12 Dec. 1740ROBERT WILLIAMS vice Devereux, deceased
28 May 1741SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN
2 Apr. 1742ROBERT WILLIAMS vice Wynn, chose to sit for Denbighshire
17 July 1747EDWARD KYNASTON

Main Article

At the beginning of the eighteenth century the dominant interests in Montgomeryshire were those of Edward Vaughan of Llwydiarth, the Member since 1679, and of the Marquess of Powis, who did not recover his Jacobite father’s estates till 1722. On Vaughan’s death in 1718 his estate and influence passed to his son-in-law Watkin Williams Wynn, whose nominees were always returned unopposed for the county, with the support of the Marquess of Powis.1 Wynn himself in 1741 temporarily replaced his brother after his own defeat in Denbighshire.

Author: Peter D.G. Thomas

Notes

  • 1. NLW, Powis Castle mss 1101.