William Erneley otherwise Ernley or Ernle (1501–1546), of Cakeham, near West Wittering, Sussex, was an English politician. He was the son and heir of Sir John Ernley, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (d. 1520), and belonged to the original Sussex line of an ancient landed family,

Ernle Ernle was the surname of an English gentry or landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex who derived their surname from the name of the place where their estates lay. Origins Onomastic Onomasticians say that t ...

, long seated at Earnley,

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. Erneley was a Member of Parliament for Chichester in 1542. He married Bridget, the daughter of

Thomas Spring of Lavenham Thomas Spring (c. 1474 – 1523), (''alias'' Thomas Spring III or The Rich Clothier), of Lavenham in Suffolk, was an English people, English cloth merchant.Phil W Kaufman, ''American Traces in Anglian Places'' (Lulu.com), 19. He consolidated h ...

, by whom he had two sons and two daughters.Erneley, William (1501-46), of Cakeham near West Wittering, Sussex, History of Parliament
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1501 births 1546 deaths Ernle family People from Chichester District English MPs 1542–1544 {{16thC-England-MP-stub