The ''Staffordshire Mercury'' was a weekly regional

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published in

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. The publication was founded in 1824 by Thomas Allbut, with the Rev. Leonard Abington as its first editor. It was later renamed ''The Potteries Mercury'' at some point. The paper became the ''North Staffordshire Mercury'' in March 1834 but returned to being named the ''Staffordshire Mercury'' in April 1845. The paper probably folded in May 1848.The Staffordshire Encyclopedia: Newspapers M - Z
/ref> The ''Staffordshire Mercurys notable journalists include

Edmund Rogers Edmund Dawson Rogers (7 August 1823 – 28 September 1910), was an England, English journalist and spiritualist. He was the first editor of the Eastern Daily Press and the founder of the National Press Agency. Background and education The son of ...

(1840s)

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