John Howard Cordle (11 October 1912 – 23 November 2004) was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1959 to 1977.

David Atkinson was elected as his successor in the subsequent by-election.

He was first married in 1938 (divorced 1956) to Grace Lucy Walkey (1918-2021); by this marriage he had four sons and a daughter.

22 March 1936),[1] by whom he had one son and three daughters, including Marina, Viscountess Cowdray.

He married thirdly in 1976 to Terttu Heikura,[1] his children's nanny who was 35 years his junior, by whom he had two sons.