death_date parents birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
23 march 1639 peter edgcumbe circa 1570 anne carey mary coteele richard edgcumbe -lrb- died 1639 -rrb-
 sir richard edgcumbe member of parliament
richard edgcumbe -lrb- died 1639 -rrb-

sir richard edgcumbe -lrb- circa 1570 -- 23 march 1639 -rrb- was an english politician who sat in the house of commons at various times between 1586 and 1629 .
edgcumbe was the son of peter edgcumbe .
he was a student of middle temple in 1585 .
in 1586 , edgcumbe was elected member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for liskeard while his father was steward of the town .
in 1589 , he was elected mp for totnes .
he was elected mp for grampound in 1593 .
he was knighted in 1603 and succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1608 .
in 1614 , he was elected mp for bodmin in the addled parliament .
he was elected mp for grampound again in 1624 for the happy parliament .
in 1628 , he was elected mp for bossiney and sat until 1629 , when king charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years .
edgcumbe died on 23 march 1639 at the age of about 68 .
edgcumbe married firstly in 1602 anne carey , daughter of george carey of cockington , devon .
he married secondly , in 1608 , mary coteele , daughter of sir thomas coteele of london , and had three sons including piers .
