Michael Biddulph (died 1666)

Michael Biddulph (1610–1666) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.[1]

Biddulph was the eldest son of Michael Biddulph of Elmhurst, Staffordshire, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Skeffington and was baptised on 6 November 1610.[2] He was a soldier, serving as a captain in Ireland in 1640, when according to William Dugdale the burgesses of Lichfield wanted him to represent them in parliament.[3] At the outbreak of English Civil War he accompanied Dugdale to Highworth, Wiltshire, seeking a commission from his mother's uncle Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet who was raising a royalist regiment. However, he was recalled by his family, who supported the parliamentary cause.[3]

In 1660, Biddulph was elected Member of Parliament for Lichfield in the Convention Parliament.[1]

Biddulph died unmarried at the age of 55 and was buried at Stowe on 3 November 1666.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "BIDDULPH, Michael I (1610-66), of Elmhurst, Staffs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  2. ^ Shaw, Stebbing (1798). The history and antiquities of Staffordshire. p. 352.
  3. ^ a b Shaw 1798, p. 350.
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