Robert Jasper More

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Jasper More (30 October 1836 - 25 November 1903) was an English landowner, barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1865 and 1903. More was the son of Rev. Thomas Frederick More, J.P., of Linley Hall. Shropshire, and his wife Harriet Mary More daughter of Thomas More of Larden Hall, Much Wenlock. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and called to the bar at Lincolns Inn in 1863. More was elected as Member of Parliament for Shropshire South in 1865 but lost the seat in 1868. In 1876 he made a tour of the Balkans of which he subsequently published an account. More was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Shropshire and High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1881. He was also and a J.P. for Montgomery. He collected mineral specimens from the old lead mines of South Shropshire.