| Peter Edgcumbe | |
| Office1: | Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall |
| Term1: | Before 1573-1597 |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Cornwall |
| Term2: | 11 January 1563 - 2 January 1567 8 May 1572 - 1581 1586-1593 |
| Office3: | Member of Parliament for Liskeard |
| Term3: | 1584-1585 |
| Office4: | Member of Parliament for Devon |
| Term4: | 1571 |
| Office5: | Sheriff of Cornwall |
| Term5: | 1569 |
| Office6: | Sheriff of Devon |
| Term6: | 1565 |
| Term7: | 1555 |
| Death Date: | 4 January |
| Spouse: | Margaret Luttrell |
| Children: | 9, including Richard |
| Father: | Richard Edgcumbe |
| Relatives: | Piers Edgcumbe (grandfather) |
Peter (or Piers) Edgcumbe (1536 – 4 January 1608) of Mount Edgcumbe and of Cotehele in the parish of Calstock, both in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament.
Piers was a traditional first name in his family. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe (1499–1562), son of Sir Piers Edgcumbe (d.1539)[1] [2] of West Stonehouse and Cotehele, Cornwall.
He was elected a Member of Parliament for Totnes in Devon in 1555, appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1565, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1569 and Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall before 1573–1597. He was also a Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the periods 11 January 1563 – 2 January 1567 and 8 May 1572 – 1581, Devon in 1571, Liskeard in 1584–1585 and was then re-elected for Cornwall in 1586, 1589 and 1593.[3]
He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall for the period 8 August 1586 – 7 December 1587 and was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall in 1587.
In about 1555 he married Margaret Luttrell, a daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell, feudal baron of Dunster, of Dunster Castle in Somerset, by whom he had five sons and four daughters including:
Piers died in 1608.