officer of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. His daughter Philadelphia Ernle (d.1692) married Sir John Potenger (d.1733). They are buried together in Blunsdon in Wiltshire, with a monument by Peter Scheemakers. Antecedents Ernle was descended from John Ernle the Elder, Esquire, of Fosbury and Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire (born 1461/2), the ancestor of the Wiltshire branch of the family, and from John Ernle, Esq., of Sidlesham, Sussex (died 1465), whose wife Margaret was a daughter of Nicholas Morley, Esq., of Glynde Place, Sussex. He was thus a kinsman of the Sir John Ernley who served as Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas early in the 16th century. References Chancellors of the Exchequer of England 1620 births 1697 deaths 17th-century Royal Navy personnel Members of the Privy Council of England Lords of the Admiralty Place of birth missing Ernle family English MPs 1654–1655 English MPs 1660 English MPs 1661–1679 English MPs 1679 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1685–1687 English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Cricklade Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Wiltshire