Edward Harris (Irish judge)

Sir Edward Harris (1575–1636) of Cornworthy in Devon, was an English-born judge and politician in seventeenth-century Ireland.

[3] Sir Thomas Harris was called by his contemporary the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) "a man much commended for his pregnant wit and learning".

As Lord Cork's nominee, Harris sat in the Irish House of Commons in the Irish Parliament of 1613–15 as one of the two members for Clonakilty, a borough which had just been created at Lord Cork's instigation, as part of his plan to build a political "empire" in the south of Ireland.

The following year he was greatly saddened by the death of his favourite daughter Elizabeth Lancaster in childbirth: he erected a memorial to her at Kinsalebeg Church, near Ferrypoint in County Waterford.

He married twice: All his sons had died childless before 1645, at which time his female heirs were involved in bitter and protracted litigation over the inheritance.

The inscription is as follows:[12] A monument (now very badly damaged) to Edward Harris and his first wife Elizabeth Fowell still stands in the ruins of Kilcredan Church in Cork.