George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas (17 October 1724 – 15 March 1764) was a British soldier and
Member of Parliament
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.
Cholmondeley was the eldest son of
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, (2 January 1703 – 10 June 1770), styled as Viscount Malpas from 1725 to 1733, was a British Whig politician and nobleman who sat in the House of Commons from 1724 to 1733.
Life
Cholmondeley wa ...
, and Lady Mary Walpole, daughter of Prime Minister
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader ...
. He gained the
courtesy title
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In some co ...
of Viscount Malpas when his father succeeded as third Earl of Cholmondeley in 1733. He fought in the
Battle of Fontenoy
The Battle of Fontenoy was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought on 11 May 1745 near Tournai in modern Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Army of roughly the same size, led by th ...
in 1745 and later achieved the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel
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in the
65th Regiment of Foot.
In 1754 he was elected to the
House of Commons
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for
Bramber, a seat he held until 1761, and then to represent
Corfe Castle
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between 1761 and 1764.
He was given the colonelcy for life of the 65th Foot in 1760.
After returning from duty with his regiment in
Ireland
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, Lord Malpas died after five days' illness with 'inflammation of the bowels' on 15 March 1764,
[ aged 39, predeceasing his father. He had married Hester Edwardes, daughter of Sir Francis Edwardes, 3rd Baronet, in 1747. His son ]George
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succeeded his grandfather as 4th Earl of Cholmondeley in 1770 and was created Marquess of Cholmondeley
Marquess of Cholmondeley ( ) is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for George Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley.
History
The Cholmondeley family descends from William le Belward (or de Belward), the fe ...
in 1815. Lady Malpas died in 1794.
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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1724 births
1764 deaths
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Heirs apparent who never acceded
British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession
65th Regiment of Foot officers
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British MPs 1754–1761
British MPs 1761–1768
George
George may refer to:
People
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd Presid ...