Editing Tamworth, Staffordshire (section)

=== Politics ===
[[File:Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt by Henry William Pickersgill-detail.jpg|thumb|140px|Sir [[Robert Peel]]]]
[[File:John Rawlet White.jpg|thumb|140px|[[John Rawlet]], 1687]]
[[File:2010-11-01 Colosseum, Brueckenforum, Bonn IMG 6506 Clem Clempson.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Clem Clempson]], 2010]]
[[File:Emma Slater DSC 1005.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Emma Slater]], 2013]]
[[File:Marc Albrighton cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=0.65|Marc Albrighton, 2012]]
* [[Anthony Dyott]] (c.1560–1622) lawyer, politician,<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/dyott-anthony-1560-1622 The History of Parliament Trust, DYOTT, Anthony (c.1560–1622), of Freeford, nr. Lichfield, Staffs] retrieved December 2017</ref> Recorder of Tamworth, MP for [[Lichfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Lichfield]] from 1601 to 1621
* [[John Swinfen]] (1613–1694) politician<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/swinfen-%28swynfen%29-john-1613-94 The History of Parliament Trust, SWINFEN (SWYNFEN), John (1613–94), of Swinfen, Weeford, Staffs] retrieved December 2017</ref> and MP variously between 1645 and 1691, elected for [[Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Tamworth]] in 1659, 1661 and 1681
* [[Thomas Guy]] (1644–1724) founded almshouses in Tamworth in 1678, which were rebuilt in 1913. He also commissioned [[Tamworth Town Hall]] in 1701 and founded [[Guy's Hospital]] in London in 1721.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Solkin|first=David H.|date=1 September 1996|title=Samaritan or Scrooge? The Contested Image of Thomas Guy in Eighteenth-Century England|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043079.1996.10786698|journal=The Art Bulletin|volume=78|issue=3|pages=467–484|doi=10.1080/00043079.1996.10786698|s2cid=227272839 |issn=0004-3079}}</ref>
* Sir [[Robert Peel]] (1788–1850), a British statesman,<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Peel,_Robert_(1788-1850) |volume= 44 |short=x}}</ref> served twice as Prime Minister (1834–1835 and 1841–1846), the father of modern British policing. MP for [[Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Tamworth]] from 1830 to 1850
* [[Henry John Roby]] (1830–1915) classical scholar,<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Roby,_Henry_John |volume= 23 |short=x}}</ref> writer on Roman law, Liberal MP for [[Eccles (UK Parliament constituency)|Eccles]] 1890/1895 and a [[Cambridge Apostle]]
* [[Brian Jenkins (politician)|Brian Jenkins]] (born 1942) Labour Party politician, MP for [[Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)|Tamworth]] from 1997 to 2010
* [[Phil Bennion]] (born 1954) farmer, LibDem MEP for the West Midlands from 2012 to 2014