Richard Lyster (Shropshire)

Richard Lyster (c. 1691–13 April 1766) of Rowton Castle, Shropshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons for 34 years between 1722 and 1766 Lyster was the eldest son of Thomas Lyster of Rowton Castle and his wife Elizabeth Beaw, daughter of Dr. William Beaw, Bishop of Llandaff.

[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 3 July 1708, aged 16, and entered Inner Temple in 1708.

In response, he said: ‘When you learn justice, I will learn manners’, and when it was proposed to bring him to the bar of the House, Prime Minister Robert Walpole said ‘Let him go, he has been hardly enough used’.

He was the only Member to vote against a motion for a grant to the Princess Royal on her marriage in 1733, and was defeated at the 1734 general election.

[4] From 1753 onwards, Lyster abided by a compromise by which the Tory country gentlemen chose the Shropshire representation, and Lord Powis's friends chose for Shrewsbury.