Sir Warwick Hele, Kt., MP

Family and Education b. c.1568, 1st s. of John Hele I, bro. of John II. educ. I. Temple 1581. m. (1) Mary, da. of John Halse of Kenedon, s.p.; (2) Margaret, da. of Sir William Courtenay of Powderham, s.p. Kntd. 1603; suc. fa. 1608.

Offices Held

Treasurer for maimed soldiers, Devon (with Gregory Sprint) by 1600; j.p. Devon from c.1601, sheriff 1618-19.

Biography Hele, son of the money-lender and heir to his large local estates, sat in one Elizabethan Parliament, when he served on a Commons committee considering arms and armour, 8 Nov. 1597. He died 15 Jan. 1626, leaving in his will a 40s. ring apiece to half a dozen friends ‘and to all the rest that were my followers when I was sheriff of Devon’.

Vivian, Vis. Devon, 190, 247, 464; J. Brooking-Rowe, Hist. Plympton Erle, 70; CSP Dom. 1603-10, p. 657; C142/423/80; D’Ewes, 553; PCC 1 Hele.

Ref Volumes: 1558-1603 Author: P. W. Hasler Notes 1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament