William Harris (born 1504)


William Harris, of Radford in the parish of Plymstock in Devon, was a Member of Parliament for Newport-juxta-Launceston in Cornwall.

Origins

He was the son and heir of Francis Harris of Radford, by his wife Phillipa Grenville, a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville, lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and in 1486. She survived her husband and remarried to Humphry Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall, younger brother of Sir John Arundell, her brother-in-law.

Career

He was a Member of Parliament for Newport-juxta-Launceston in Cornwall, for the fifth parliament of King Henry VIII, probably served in the sixth parliament, and may have served in either or both of that king's seventh and eighth parliaments.

Family

At some time before June 1527, he married Catherine Trecarrel, a daughter and co-heiress of Henry Trecarrell of Trecarrell in Cornwall, by whom he had progeny as follows: