{{Short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} '''Edward Herle''' (c. 1617 – 20 April 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1689. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
Herle was the son of Thomas Herle of Prideaux, Cornwall, and his wife Lowday Glyn, daughter of Nicholas Glyn of Glyn, Cornwall<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/visitationofcoun00sain#page/94/mode/2up Visitation of the County of Cornwall in the year 1630]</ref> and brother of Thomas Herle, M.P.
In April 1640, Herle was elected Member of Parliament for Bossiney in the Short Parliament.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>
Herle raised a Troop of Horse, at his own expense at the start of the Civil War and commanded them throughout. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1646 and in 1647 was appointed Vice-Admiral of the Coast for North Cornwall.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37184 : 'House of Lords Journal Volume 9: 11 December 1647', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 9: 1646 (1767-1830), pp. 570-573. Date accessed: 22 June 2011]</ref>
In 1659 Herle was elected MP for Fowey in the Third Protectorate Parliament.<ref name=Willis/> In April 1660 he was elected MP for Callington<ref>{{Rayment-hc|c|1|date=March 2012}}</ref> and Fowey in the Convention Parliament and chose to sit for Fowey.<ref>{{Rayment-hc|f|date=March 2012}}</ref> He was elected MP for Grampound in 1689.
He died in 1695 and was buried at Luxulyan, Cornwall. He married twice; firstly Mary, daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Trefusis of Lezant, with whom he had seven sons and three daughters and secondly Susanna, the widow of John Owen, a London fishmonger.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/herle-edward-1617-95| title = HERLE, Edward (c.1617-95), of Prideaux, Luxulyan, Cornw.|publisher = History of Parliament|access-date = 2012-03-27}}</ref>
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{{S-start}} {{s-par|en}} |- {{s-vac| reason= Parliament suspended since 1629}} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Bossiney | with= Anthony Nicholl | years=1640 }} {{s-aft | after= Sir John Clotworthy | after2= Anthony Nicholl }} |- {{s-vac| reason= Not represented in restored Rump}} {{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for Fowey | with= John Barton | years=1659 }} {{s-aft | after= Nicholas Gould }} {{S-end}}
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