Arthur Spry (4 February 1612 – 17 September 1685) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1660 to 1679. Spry was the son of Thomas Spry and his wife Catherine Ashford, daughter of Arthur Ashford. He was the first member of the family to settle at Place, a property granted to the Spry family by Henry VIII, in the parish of

St Anthony in Roseland St Anthony in Roseland is a village and a former parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a small settlement on the Roseland Peninsula. At Trewince is a house of five bays and two storeys built in 1750. There is a St Anthony's ...

.John Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain''
/ref> In 1660, Spry was elected Member of Parliament for

St Mawes St Mawes () is a village on the end of the Roseland Peninsula, in the eastern side of Falmouth, Cornwall, Falmouth harbour, on the south coast of Cornwall, England. The village, formerly two separate hamlets, lies on the east bank of the Carri ...

in the Convention Parliament being seated after a double return in May 1660. In 1661 he was re-elected MP for St Mawes in another double return to the

Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. With the exception of the Long Parliament, it was the longest-lasting English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring ...

and was seated in May. He sat until 1679. Spry died at the age of 73 and was buried at St Anthony's where a monument was erected featuring a bust between two weeping females. Spry married firstly Mary Gayer daughter of Richard Gayer. She died on 4 May 1656 and was buried at Anthony Church. He married secondly Luce Hele, daughter of George Hele. He had a son George and was grandfather of the admiral

Richard Spry Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Spry (1715– 25 November 1775) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station. Naval career After an education at Truro Grammar School Spry joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spry, Arthur 1612 births 1685 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall Politicians from Cornwall English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679