MP Staffordshire is in Member Parliament.
In 1324 John Arderne (age 24) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1427 Humphrey Stafford (age 27) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In March 1553 William Devereux of Merevale (age 28) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1572 John Fleetwood (age 55) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1586 William Bassett (age 34) was elected MP Staffordshire.
Before 1601 John "Black Sir John" Egerton (age 49) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1607 John "Black Sir John" Egerton (age 56) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1621 William Bowyer (age 33) was elected MP Staffordshire. He was re-elected in 1624 and 1626, April and November 1640.
In 1646 John Skeffington 2nd Viscount Massereene was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1647.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1646 John Bowyer 1st Baronet (age 22) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1660 William Sneyd (age 47) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1678 Walter Bagot 3rd Baronet (age 33) was elected MP Staffordshire which he held until 1695.
On 7th November 1695 Henry Paget 1st Earl Uxbridge (age 32) was elected MP Staffordshire.
On 15th February 1704 Edward Bagot 4th Baronet (age 30) was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1708.
In 1741 Walter Wagstaffe Bagot 5th Baronet (age 38) was elected MP Staffordshire unopposed.
In 1747 Walter Wagstaffe Bagot 5th Baronet (age 44) was elected MP Staffordshire in a fiercely fought contest. He stood down in 1754 in favour of his son William Bagot 1st Baron Bagot (age 18).
In 1757 Henry Carteret 1st Baron Carteret (age 22) was elected MP Staffordshire.
On 5th July 1768 John Wrottesley 8th Baronet (age 23) was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held for the remainder of his life.
In 1780 George Legge 3rd Earl Dartmouth (age 24) was elected MP Horsham and MP Staffordshire. He chose to sit for the latter which he represented until 1784.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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On 8th April 1784 Edward Littleton 4th Baronet (age 57) was elected MP Staffordshire unopposed.
In 1799 Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville (age 25) was elected MP Staffordshire.
In 1820 John Fletcher aka Boughey 2nd Baronet (age 35) was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until his death in 1823.
In 1823 John Wrottesley 1st Baron Wrottesley (age 51) was elected MP Staffordshire which seat he held until 1832.