DIRECTORY.] SHROPSHIRE,. 243 Boningale or BoninghaJI, Boscobel, Donington, Kemberton, Bnrton Wollaston, chaplain i E. Cresswell Peele, clerk to Ule Ryton, Shifnal, Stockton, Button Maddock and Tong. visiting justices; William Johnson, clerk of asylum. Hundred of Chirbury (Lower division):- Chirbury, Her Majesty's Prison, in the Dana, Shrewsbury, erected Byssington (partly in Montgomery) and Shelve. in 1787-93, from a design by Mr. Haycock, at a cost of Hundred of Clun :-Clun and Llanvair Waterdine (Clnn £3o,ooo: the south elevation, forming the governor's house, division), and Mainstone (Mainstone division). has a bold castellated appearance, and over the gateway is a. Hundred of Condover:- Meole. Brace (Shrewsbury) niche containing a bust of Howard, the philanthrophist,. by (part of), St. Chad (Shrewsbury) (part of) and St. Julia.n Bacon ; the prison contains 2o8 cells, 184 for males and 24 (Shrewsbury) (part of). (Cound division). Acton Burnell, for females, besides the apartments for debtors and infirm­ Berrington, Church Preen, Connd, Cressage, Barley, aries. The visiting justices meet at the prison once a month. Kenley, Pitchford and Ruckley and Langley. (Condover Richard Roberts, governor; Peter Walton, deputy; Rev. division): - Church Pulverbatch, Condover, Frodesley, Henry Roben Barber, chaplain; John Davies Harries, sur­ Leebotwood, Longnor, Smethcott, Stapleton, Button and geon ; J obn Grey1 assistant surgeon ; George Watson1 W oolsaston. schoolmaster. Hundred of Ford (Ford division) :-Alberbury (Lower quarter), Cardeston or Cardiston, .Ford, Great Hanwood, PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF Great Wollaston, Minsterley, St. Alkmond (Shrewsbury) SHROPSffiRE, (part of), St. Julian (Shrewsbury) (part of) and Westbury. Shropshire formerly returned four members in two divi­ (Pontesbury division) :-Habberley and Pontesbury. sions, but by the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 18S5," it Hundred of Mnnslow (Lower division) :-Abdon, Ash­ still has four members, but i.n four divisions :-- ford Bowdler, Ashford Carbonell, Bromfield, Clee St. Margaret, Cold Weston, Culminton, Diddlebury, Easthope, No. I.-The Western or Oswestry division compl'ises the Halford, Heath, Holdgate, Hopton Cangeford or Hopton-in­ sessional divisions of Cherbury, Condover, Ford, Oswestry the-Hole, Long Stanton, Ludford (part of), Ludlow Castle, and Pimhill (except so much as is comprised in division Munslow, Onibury, Richard's Castle (part of), Stanton Lacy, 2 ), the municipal borough of Oswestry and the parish of Stoke St. Milborough, Stokesay and Tugford. (Upper l<'itz in the sessional division of Albrightou. division): - Acton Scott, Cardington, Church Stretton, No. 2.-The Northern or Newport division comprises the Eaton, Hope Bowdler, Rushbury and Shipton. sessional divisions of Albrighton (except the parish of Hundred of Overs :-Bitterley, Boraston, Burford., Greet, Fitz); Bradford Drayton, Bradford Newport (except the Milson, Nash, Neen Sollars, Silvington and Whitton. part in division 3); Bradford Wem; Bradford Whitchnrch Hundred of Purslow (Bishop's Castle division) :-Bishop's and Brimstree Shifnal ; the municipal borough of Shrews­ Castle, Dinmore, Lydham, Mindtown, Moore, Norbury, bury ; the parish of Middle, in the sessional division of North Lydbury, Ratlinghope and Wentnor. (Stow Pimhill ; and the following parishes in the sessional division):- Bedstone,_ Bettws, Clunbury, Clungunford, division of Bradford Wellington, viz. :-Atchall, Ercall Edgton, Hopesay, Hopton Castle, Sibdon Carwood and Magna, Longdon-upon-Tern, Rodington, Upton Magna, Winstanstow. Waters Upton and Withington. Hundred of Stottesden (Chelmarsh division):- Acton No. 3.-The Mid or Wellington division comprises the ses­ Round, Alveley, Astley Abbotts, Aston Eyre, Billingsley, sional divisions of Bradford Wellington (except so much Chelmarsh, Chetton, Deuxhill, Eardington, Glazeley, High­ as is comprised in division No. 2) ; the parishes of Lilies­ lay, Middleton Scriven, Mowill, Neenton, North Cleobury, ball and Prestou-on-the· Weald Moors, in the sessional {)ldbury, Quatt (part of), Romsley, Rudge, Sheinton, Bid­ divison of Bradford Newport; and the parishes of Bent­ bury, Tasley, Upton Cressett and Worfield. (Cleobury hall, Broseley, Little Wenlock and Madeley, in the muni­ division) :-Aston BottereH, Burwarton, Cainham, Cleobury, cipal borough of Wenlock. Mortimer, Corely, Dowles, Farlow, Hope Baggot, Hopton No. 4.-The Southern or Ludlow division comprises the Wafers, Kinlet, Loughton, Neen Savage, Stottesden, Wheat­ sessional divisions of Bishop's Castle, Brimstree South and hill and Woodhouse. Stottesdon Chilmarsh; Burford, Clun and Pnrslow; Bridgnorth borough :-Quatford, Quatt (part of), St. Munslow Lower and part of Overs and Stottesdon, Mons­ Leonard (Bridgnorth) and St. Mary Magdalen (Bridgnorth). low Upper and Stottesdon Cleobury; and the munieipal Ludlow borough :-St. Lawrence (Ludlow). boroughs of Bridgnorth, Ladlow and Wenlock (except so Wenlock borough :-Barrow, Benthall, Broseley, Ditton much as is comprised in division 3). Priors, Hughley, Linley, Little Wenlock, Madeley, Monk­ Under the provisions of the above-named Act, the repre­ hopton, Much Wenlock, Posenhall and Willey. sentation of the borough~ of Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Wen­ lock was merged in that of the county, and the borough of The Salop Infirmary, at Shrewsbury, was first founded in Shrewsbury lost one member. April, :r745 : the present Infirmary, built on the site of a former structure at a cost of more than£ :r8,ooo, and opened for patients in 1830, is a structure of freestone in the Classic MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY. style, with a Doric portico in the centre, from designs by Mid Division, Col. Alexander Hargreaves Brown I.P. Druid's Messrs. Haycock, of Shrewsbury ; the interior comprises Cross, W a.vertree, Liverpool y & 12 Grosvenor gardens four stories, with well arranged offices in the basement, and s w & Brooks' & Devonshire clubs, London s w in the attics, four wards, with nurses' rooms reached by Northern Division, Col. William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney 1.1'. staircases at each end of the building and connected by Hat ton grange, Shifnal, Salop; & Carlton, Guards' & spacious galleries, affording free ventilation : a wide terrace Wellington clubs, London s w extends along the eastern front, whence an extensive and Southern Division, Robert Jasper More esq. M.A., D,L., J.P. interesting view is obtained : an additional wing was com­ Linley hall, Bishop's Castle R.S.O.; Larden cottage, Long pleted in 1869 at a cost of £4,000, and in 1877 the interior Stanton, Much Wenlock R.S.O. Salop; & 14 Arlington st. was renovated and re-arranged and several out-buildings s w & Oxford & Cambridge & Brooks' clubs, London s w added at a further cost of £s,ooo, and the infirmary is Western Division, Stanley Leighton esq. F.S.A., D.L., I.P~ liberally supported by contributions and benefactions and Sweeney hall, Oswestry ; & Carlton & Athenreum clubs. contains 130 beds; the average yearly attendance is about London s w :r,:r25 in, and 6,208 out, patients: •r. P. P. Marsh, J. de Styrap M.R.C.P.Irel. Henry Nelson Edwards L.R.c. P.Edin. MILITARY. and Edward Burd 1\I.D., M.C. physicians extraordinary; Richd. Waiter Owen Withers L.R.C.P.LOnd. and Ed ward Cure­ Shrewsbury is the depOt of Regimental District No. 53, the ton M.R.C.I'.Edin. physicians; William Eddowes, Henry John King's Shropshire Light Infantry, comprising the Ist Rope F.R.c.s.EDg. and Arthur Jackson F.R.c.s.Eng. surgeons; Battalion (53rd Foot) and 2nd (85th Foot), to which is William Edward Harding L.D.S.R.C.S.Eng. dental surgeon; attached two Militia Battalions, the Shropshire and Here­ Harold Hay Brodie Macleod L.R.C.I'.LOnd. house surgeon; ford, comprising respectively its 3rd and 4th. The head Miss D. M. Oldham, lady superintendent; Rev. Newdigate quarters of the 3rd are at Shrewsbury. l<'ull particulars Poyntz M. A. chaplain; Wallace Boyce, secretary. are given at page 416. The Hereford Militia is stationed at Hereford. The Counties Lunatic Asylum for Salop and Montgomery, at Bicton Heath, near Shrewsbury, is a building in the Elizabethan style, and was opened in 1845, since which con­ VOLUNTEERS. siderable additions have been made up to the year :r884, at Shropshire Yeomanry Cavalry, Col. the Earl of Kilmorey~ a total cost of £90,000, and the asylum will now hold Boo commanding; E. H. Baldock, major ; Capt. E. A. patients : the additions comprise a wing at each side, laundry, Critchley, adjutant; John Daniel Lloyd L.R.O.P.Bdin. dining hall, workshops, mortuary chapel and a lodge, from surgeon ; H. Barnes, veterinary surgeon ; head quarters designs by Mr. Thomas Gr.>ves, erected at a cost of over & stores, Town Walls. Troops A, Capt. T. R. Chol­ £6o,ooo: 35 acres, well cultivated, are attached to the mondeley ; B, Capt. C. B. Childe, Shrewsbury ; C, Capt. building: Arthur Strange M. D. medical superintendent; Lord Kenyon, Ellesmere; D, Capt. LordRodney, Welling­ Alan Rigden L.R.C.P.LOnd. and Alfred Waiter Camp bell M.B., ton; E, Capt. Lord Rodney, Ludlow; F, Capt. the Hon. c.M.Edin. assistant medical officers; Rev. John Thomas George Ralph Ormsby-Gore, Oswestry .