Michael Biddulph (died 1666)
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Michael Biddulph was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons
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  in 1660.

Biddulph was the son of Michael Biddulph of Market Street Lichfield
Lichfield
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, and his wife Elizabeth Skeffington, daughter of Sir William Skeffington, 1st Baronet of Fisherwick and was baptised on 6 November 1610. He was a soldier and was about to enlist in a royalist regiment in WIltshire during the English Civil War
English Civil War
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 when his family, who supported the parliamentary cause, recalled him.

In 1660, Biddulph was elected Member of Parliament
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 for Lichfield
Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)
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 in the Convention Parliament.

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