15 July 1642), of the Middle Temple, London and Chantmarle, Cattistock, Dorset, was an English MP for Bridport in 1621 and 1625.

[1] Strode, a lawyer by profession, who gained a reputation as "an honest, trusty, learned, religious gentleman",[2] served as a Justice of the Peace for Dorset by 1593–1642, commissioner sewers 1617, martial law 1626, knighthood compositions 1631, piracy 1631.

[1] He was Autumn reader, Middle Temple in 1611, bencher from 1611 to 1642, treasurer from 1619 to 1620; recorder, Bridport, Dorset from 1618 to 1640.

[1][3] His widow was murdered defending Parnham House, near Beaminster in Dorset, in 1645 by a soldier under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax during the Civil War.

[1] Four months after his first wife's death, and two days after Margery Wyndham married Hugh Trevilian on 7 January 1621/22 at St Decumans (Watchet), Somerset,[4] Strode married secondly on 9 January 1621/22 at St Decumans (Watchet), Somerset to Anne (d. 1645),[5] daughter of Sir John Wyndham of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, by whom he had four sons and two daughters, including:[1]