Sir Simon Archer (21 September 1581 – before 4 June 1662) was an English antiquary and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
[3] He remained neutral in the English Civil War in 1642, but two of his sons fought on the Parliamentary side.
In the 1650s, he was active as a justice of the peace in local government, and (unusually) retained this office after the Restoration, until his death.
[citation needed] His main claim to fame was as an antiquary, starting work on the history of his native county in the 1630s.
[4] Archer had a significant collection of manuscripts that survive in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, the Warwickshire Record Office, and the Bodleian Library.