Sir Nicholas Wolstenholme, 4th Baronet (1676–1717) was an English baronet and land-owner in

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

. He was the son of

Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet Sir John Wolstenholme, 3rd Baronet (1649–1709), of Forty Hall, Enfield, and Denmark Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 17 ...

, a member of Parliament for

.WOLSTENHOLME, Sir John, 3rd Bt. (1649-1709), of Forty Hall, Enfield, and Denmark Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.
History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 December 2018. He was heavily in debt for much of his adult life: his estate was in the hands of trustees, and he was incarcerated in the Fleet Prison. He married Grace Waldo, daughter of Sir Edward Waldo and his third wife Elizabeth Shuckburgh. They had no children. After his death, she remarried William Ferdinand Cary, 8th

Baron Hundson Baron Hunsdon is a title that has been created three times. It was first created in 1559 in the Peerage of England for the soldier and courtier Henry Carey. His grandson, the fourth Baron, was created by Viscount Rochford in 1621 and Earl of D ...

. They had no children and the title became extinct upon his death. Grace died in 1729 aged about 46. The Wolstenholme family originally acquired wealth and social position in Middlesex through service in the customs office. The second baronet built

Minchington Hall Minchington Hall, or Mincington Hall, or Minchenden House, was a country house and estate in Southgate, then in the county of Middlesex in England, and now in Greater London. It was on Southgate Green and the south side of Waterfall Road, a ...

in Southgate, Middlesex, after 1664.Edmonton: Other estates
British History Online. Retrieved 26 December 2018. In 1716, the 4th baronet sold part of the Minchington estate to

Sir David Hechstetter Sir David Hechstetter (or Heckstetter, Hetchetter, Hochstetter, or Hockstetter; c. 1659 – 14 June 1721) was a director of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London (the Hamburg Company) and a land-owner in Hertfordshire and Middlesex. He w ...

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1676 births 1717 deaths English landowners Baronets in the Baronetage of England {{England-bio-stub

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