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Charles Cholmondeley (politician)

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Cholmondeley died on 30 March 1756. He had three sons and five daughters. Two of his sons predeceased him and he was succeeded in both his estates and his parliamentary seat by his son
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and listed as a ‘worthy patriot’. He increasingly involved himself in the attempts of Tory back-benchers to influence policy. By 1712, he changed his allegiance from the
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fled abroad in July 1715, Cholmondeley drank the Jacobite toast with Sir Henry Bunbury and Lord Barrymore. He was returned as MP for Cheshire again in a contest at the
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he was re-elected in a contest again. From then on, he was returned as MP for Cheshire unopposed in
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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and continued to vote regularly against the government.
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in August 1709. He married Essex Pitt, daughter of
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Index

Vale Royal
Cheshire
Tory
House of Commons

Vale Royal Abbey
Thomas Cholmondeley
Vale Royal
Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet
Battersea
Lydiard Tregoze
St. John’s College, Cambridge
Middle Temple
Thomas Pitt
1710 general election
Member of Parliament for Cheshire
October Club
October Club
1713
Cheshire
1715 general election
Duke of Ormonde
1722 general election
1727 general election
1734 general election
1741
1747
1754
Thomas Cholmondeley
"Cholmondeley, Charles (CHLY701C)"

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