Thomas Cholmondeley (1726–1779)
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| Member of Parliament for Cheshire | |
| In office 1756–1768 | |
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| Born | 24 June 1726 Vale Royal, Cheshire |
| Died | 2 June 1779 (aged 52) |
| Resting place | Church Minshull, Cheshire |
| Spouse | Dorothy Cowper |
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Thomas Cholmondeley (24 June 1726 – 2 June 1779), of Vale Royal, Cheshire was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1756 and 1768. He was elected MP for Cheshire in 1756 and 1761.[1]
Biography
[edit]Cholmondeley was born on 24 June 1726, the third son of Charles Cholmondeley (1685 – 1756) of Vale Royal, Cheshire and Essex Pitt, daughter of Thomas Pitt of Stratford, Wiltshire.[2] He attended Westminster School from 1740 to 1743 and was admitted to St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1743.[1]
On 29 October 1764, he married Dorothy Cowper, daughter of Edmund Cowper of Overleigh Hall in Cheshire, by whom he had six sons and three daughters:[2][3]
- Hester Cholmondeley (9 July 1766 – 24 September 1802), married John Drummond, son of banker John Drummond)[4]
- Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere (1767–1855)
- Charles Cholmondeley (13 October 1768 – 26 October 1768), died in infancy
- Charles Cholmondeley (6 June 1770 – 5 December 1846), married on 13 January 1794, Caroline-Elizabeth Smyth (1773–1818), daughter of Nicholas Smyth of Cubley, Shropshire; sister and coheir of Nicholas Owen Smyth Owen of Condover.[2]
- Essex Cholmondeley (29 October 1771 – buried 4 November 1848)
- Hugh Cholmondeley (18 December 1772 – 25 November 1815), Dean of Chester
- Francis Cholmondeley (1775–1802), died unmarried
- Dorothy Cholmondeley (bapt. 29 October 1776 – 18 March 1853), married Thomas Parker of Astle Hall
- Robert Cholmondeley (9 February 1778 – 1856)
He died on 2 June was buried on 8 June 1779 at Church Minshull, Cheshire.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Drummond 1964.
- ^ a b c d Ormerod & Helsby 1882, pp. 158.
- ^ Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison & Sons. p. 549. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ Balfour Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. p. 224.
Sources
[edit]- Drummond, Mary M. (1964). "Cholmondeley, Thomas (1726-79), of Vale Royal, Cheshire". In Namier, L.; Brooke, J. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 – via History of Parliament Online.
- Ormerod, George; Helsby, Thomas (1882). The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices the Harleian and Cottonian Mss. Parochial Registers Private Muniments Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Hale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). George Routledge and Sons. OCLC 223243317.
External links
[edit]- Drummond, Mary M. (1964). "Cholmondeley, Thomas (1726-79), of Vale Royal, Cheshire". In Namier, L.; Brooke, J. (eds.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790. History of Parliament Online.