John Cordle

John Howard Cordle (11 October 1912 – 23 November 2004) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Cordle, the son of Ernest William Cordle, was educated at the City of London School and became managing director of E. W. Cordle and Son Ltd. in 1946. He was also a member of Lloyd's of London. He served as a member of the Church Assembly 1946–53, as a director of the Church Society from 1951 and of the Church of England newspaper from 1959.

Cordle contested the The Wrekin in 1951. He was Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch from 1959 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Bournemouth East from 1974 to 1977, when he resigned as a result of the John Poulson scandal. David Atkinson was elected as his successor in the subsequent by-election.

Cordle was married three times. He was first married 1938 (div 1956) to Grace Lucy Walkey (b. 1918); by this marriage, he had issue four sons and a daughter, of whom only two (or three) sons outlived him. He married 2ndly 1957 (div 1971) Venetia Caroline Maynard (b. 22 March 1936) by whom he had issue one son and three daughters, including Marina, Viscountess Cowdray. He married 3rdly 1976 Terttu Heikura, his children's nanny who was 35 years his junior, by whom he had two sons. Only this last wife's name was included in his Who's Who entry.

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