Sir Walter Moyle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 at various times between 1656 and 1660.

Moyle was the son of John Moyle of Bake, Cornwall

Bake, Cornwall

Bake is a hamlet in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is west of St Germans at , south-west of the A38/A374 Trerulefoot roundabout.Bake is the seat of the Moyle family and St German's Priory has a mortuary chapel for the Moyle family of Bake.West of the manor house, a steep tree-lined...

. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford

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 and at Inner Temple

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In 1654, Moyle was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Cornwall

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 in the First Protectorate Parliament

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 and was re-elected in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament

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. In 1659 he was elected MP for Lostwithiel

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 in the Third Protectorate Parliament

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In 1660, Moyle was elected MP for Lostwithiel in the Convention Parliament. He was knighted at Whitehall on 4 February 1664.

Moyle died in 1701 at the age of 74.

Moyle married Thomasine Morice, daughter of Sir William Morice

William Morice (Secretary of State)

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, the Secretary of State. His son Walter

Walter Moyle

Walter Moyle was an English politician and political writer, an advocate of classical republicanism.-Life:He was born at Bake in St Germans, Cornwall, on 3 November 1672, the third, but eldest surviving son of Sir Walter Moyle, who died in September 1701, by his wife Thomasine, daughter of Sir...

was a political writer.