Richard Strode (22 May 1528 – 5 August 1581), of Newnham, in the parish of Plympton St Mary in Devon, was an English Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle in 1553 and 1559.

[1][2] He later served as escheator for Devon and Cornwall from 1565–1566.

[1] He was the eldest son of William Strode of Newnham, Devon and Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Courtenay.

[1] He married, on 11 November 1560, Frances (died 7 February 1562), daughter of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour by whom he had a son:[1] William Strode (1562–1637)[3] Strode died on 5 August 1581,[4] two years after his father, leaving landed property worth over £60 per annum to his son and heir, William, then aged nineteen.

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