Constituency Dates
Plymouth 1597
Plympton Erle 22 Oct. 1605, 1614, 1621, 1625 – 15 Jan. 1626
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.

Address
Main residence: Wembury, Devon.
biography text

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’.1Vivian, 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.

Author
P.W.H.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Notes
  • 1. 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.