Nathaniel Cholmley (15 November 1721 – 11 March 1791) was a British

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Life

He was the son of

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MP and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Bt. He was selected

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for 1754–55. He was elected to Parliament for the constituency of Aldborough from 1756 to 1768 and for

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from 1768 to 1774. He commissioned the remodelling of his seat at

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in North Yorkshire, employing Capability Brown to lay out the parkland.

Family

Cholmley married three times; firstly in 1750, Catherine, the daughter of

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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

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