A SELECTION of portraits, watercolours and prints originally from the collection of late Ludlow MP Sir Jasper and Lady More of Linley Hall, near Bishop's Castle.

These works, which have been consigned by the owner of Linley Hall to fine art auctioneers Halls’ pictures auction at the Battlefield salerooms, are associated with the Hope-Edwardes family, who lived at Netley Hall, and the Mores and Myttons who were at Linley, Shipton, Larden and Cleobury North in the Corvedale.

Sir Jasper was MP for Ludlow for 19 years and was knighted on his retirement from the Commons in 1979. His death in 1987 marked the end of the line for a long-established Shropshire family which had produced MPs since 1640. He had been elected to Parliament at a by-election in 1960 caused by the death of sitting MP Christopher Holland-Martin

Portraits with a strong local connection include an oil of Thomas Henry Hope-Edwardes who built the church at Dorrington in 1845. The church was constructed during the mid-Victorian Anglo-Catholic renewal period and is in an early English style.

Other portraits of family members include two works by Frederic Yates (1854-1919) of the Rev St Leger Frederick Hope-Edwardes (1839-1899) and his wife Alice Mary.

The collection includes a striking portrait of Captain Vincent Coldwell by John Newman Holroyd (1881-1954). Captain Vincent, a professional soldier who was commissioned into the 19th Hussars, later transferred to the 4th Indian Cavalry, saw active service in the Middle East and died of typhoid fever in Basra in 1916.

His only child, Clare Mary Hope-Edwardes - she assumed the surname and arms of Hope-Edwardes on succeeding her great-aunt on March 8, 1927 - married Jasper More of Linley in 1944.

Alongside these pictures are six lots of commemorative indentures from the late Victorian period onwards, which were presented by estate workers to the More and Mytton families to mark wedding anniversaries and other events.

The sale by Halls in Shrewsbury is on Wednesday, January 27.