MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis is in Member Parliament.
In 1586 Edward Phelips [aged 29] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1593 Thomas Stafford [aged 19] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1597 Francis Leigh [aged 18] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1604 Robert Myddelton [aged 41] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1614 Robert Bateman [aged 52] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Addled Parliament.
In 1621 John Freke [aged 30] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. He was re-elected in 1624.
In 1624 Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle [aged 38] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1625.
In 1625 John Melbury Sampford Strangeways [aged 39] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In April 1640 Giles Strangeways [aged 24] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis during the Short Parliament.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 14th April 1660. My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night supped with my Lord.
In June 1660 Colonel Bullen Reymes [aged 46] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1661 Colonel Bullen Reymes [aged 47] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
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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In 1747 Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip [aged 33] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1761.
In 1774 Welbore Ellis 1st Baron Mendip [aged 60] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1790.
In 1786 George Jackson aka Duckett 1st Baronet [aged 60] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until 1788.
In 1790 Thomas Tyrwhitt aka Tyrwhitt-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 24] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until Jun 1791.
In 1791 James Johnstone 4th Baronet [aged 64] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which seat he held until his death in 1794. His brother William Johnstone aka Pulteney 5th Baronet [aged 61] had requested the sitting MP Thomas Tyrwhitt aka Tyrwhitt-Jones 1st Baronet [aged 25] to stand down forcing a by-election which James won.
In 1813 James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil 2nd Marquess Salisbury [aged 21] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.
In 1818 Thomas Fowell Buxton 1st Baronet [aged 31] was elected MP Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.