Arthur Spry

Arthur Spry (4 February 1612 – 17 September 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.

He was the first member of the family to settle at Place, a property granted to the Spry family by Henry VIII, in the parish of St Anthony in Roseland.

[2] In 1661 he was re-elected MP for St Mawes in another double return to the Cavalier Parliament and was seated in May.

[2] Spry died at the age of 73 and was buried at St Anthony's where a monument was erected featuring a bust between two weeping females.

He had a son George and was grandfather of the admiral Richard Spry.