Piers Edgecumbe (c. 1609 – 6 January 1667)[1] was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1644 and between 1662 and 1667.
He supported the Royalist side in the English Civil War.
Edgecumbe was the son of Sir Richard Edgecumbe and his wife Mary Cottle, daughter of Sir Thomas Cottle of London.
[2] After the Restoration, Edgecumbe was appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1660 and re-elected MP for Newport in 1662, holding the seat until his death in 1667.
[3] Edgecumbe died at the age of 51 and the inscription on his monument stated he "was a master of languages and sciences; a lover of the King and Church which he endeavoured to support, in the time of the Civil Wars, to the utmost of his power and fortune."