MP Thirsk is in Member Parliament.
In 1586 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet [aged 30] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1589 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet [aged 33] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1593 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet [aged 37] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1601 Henry Belasyse 1st Baronet [aged 45] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1628 Christopher Wandesford [aged 35] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1640 Thomas Ingram [aged 25] was elected MP Thirsk.
On 6th October 1645 William Ayscough of Osgoodby [aged 31] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1661 Walter Strickland [aged 38] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1661 Thomas Ingram [aged 46] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1671 William Frankland 1st Baronet [aged 31] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1681 William Ayscough of Osgoodby [aged 66] was elected MP Thirsk.
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 1709 Leonard Smelt [aged 26] was elected MP Thirsk.
On 22nd August 1713 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet [aged 28] was elected MP Thirsk during the 1713 General Election.
Between 22nd January 1715 and 9th March 1715 the 1715 General Election was held. The election had been caused by George I's [aged 54] succession. The Whig party, which supported George I, won an overwhelming majority.
John Rushout 4th Baronet [aged 29] was elected MP Malmesbury.
Leonard Smelt [aged 32] was elected MP Northallerton.
Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet [aged 30] was elected MP Thirsk.
George Carpenter 1st Baron Carpenter [aged 57] was elected MP Whitchurch.
On 19th March 1722 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet [aged 37] was elected MP Thirsk during the 1722 General Election.
In 1727 Thomas Robinson 1st Baron Grantham [aged 32] was elected MP Thirsk.
On 14th August 1727 Thomas Frankland 3rd Baronet [aged 42] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1747 Thomas Frankland 5th Baronet [aged 28] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1749 William Monckton aka Monckton-Arundell 2nd Viscount Galway [aged 24] was elected MP Thirsk which seat he held until 1754.
In 1774 Thomas Frankland 6th Baronet [aged 23] was elected MP Thirsk during the 1774 General Election.
In 1805 Richard Griffin 3rd Baron Braybrook [aged 21] was elected MP Thirsk which seat he held until 1806.
In 1815 Robert Frankland-Russell 7th Baronet [aged 31] was elected MP Thirsk.
In 1834 Samuel Crompton 1st Baronet [aged 48] was elected MP Thirsk from which seat he resigned in 1841.
In March 1851 William Payne-Gallwey 2nd Baronet [aged 43] was elected MP Thirsk unopposed at a by-election. He was re-elected without a contest in the next four general elections, and in contested elections in 1868 and 1874. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1880 general election.