Walter Moyle (MP)
Sir Walter Moyle (9 March 1627 – 19 September 1701) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1660.
Moyle was the son of John Moyle of Bake, Cornwall. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and at Inner Temple.[1]
In 1654, Moyle was elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the First Protectorate Parliament and was re-elected in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. In 1659 he was elected MP for Lostwithiel in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2]
In 1660, Moyle was elected MP for Lostwithiel in the Convention Parliament.[3] He was knighted at Whitehall on 4 February 1664.[4]
Moyle died in 1701 at the age of 74.
Moyle married Thomasine Morice, daughter of Sir William Morice, the Secretary of State. His son Walter was a political writer.[5]
References
- ^ Caroline Robbins, Henry Neville, Walter Moyle Two English republican tracts
- ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
- ^ Knights of England
- ^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1894). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 246–248. . In
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