Nathaniel Cholmley

Nathaniel Cholmley, 1762 portrait

Nathaniel Cholmley (15 November 1721 – 11 March 1791) was a British Member of Parliament.

Howsham Hall, North Yorkshire

Life

He was the son of Hugh Cholmley MP and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Bt.[1]

He was selected High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1754–55. [2]

He was elected to Parliament for the constituency of Aldborough from 1756 to 1768 and for Boroughbridge from 1768 to 1774.[1]

He commissioned the remodelling of his seat at Howsham Hall in North Yorkshire, employing Capability Brown to lay out the parkland.

Family

Cholmley married three times; firstly in 1750, Catherine, the daughter of Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, with whom he had two daughters; secondly, in 1757, Henrietta Catherine, daughter of Stephen Croft of Stillington, Yorkshire who gave him a son and two daughters and thirdly, in 1774, Anne Jesse, daughter of Leonard Smelt of Langton, Yorkshire.

References

1. "CHOLMLEY, Nathaniel (1721-91), of Howsham, and Whitby, Yorks". History of Parliament. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
2. "No. 9342". The London Gazette. 29 January 1754. p. 1.