Thomas Erle (1621–1650)

Thomas Erle (1621 – 1 June 1650) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648.

[2] He matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 18 February 1636, aged 14.

He was elected MP for Wareham for the Long Parliament in November 1640.

Erle was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1647[3] and was a friend of Anthony Ashley Cooper, the future Earl of Shaftesbury.

Their children included General Thomas Erle who was one of those who helped instigate the Glorious Revolution.

Arms of Erle: Gules, three escallops argent a bordure engrailed of the last [ 1 ]