Sir_Montague_Cholmeley,_2nd_Baronet

Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet

Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet

British Liberal Party politician and baronet

Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (5 August 1802 – 18 January 1874)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and baronet.

Funeral hatchment of Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet, Stoke Rochford Church, Lincolnshire, showing arms of Cholmeley impaling Beauclerk

He was the son of Sir Montague Cholmeley, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of John Harrison.[2] In 1831, he succeeded his father as baronet.[3] In 1826, Cholmeley replaced his father as Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham, a seat he held until 1831.[4] He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1836[5] and represented North Lincolnshire from 1847 to 1852 and again from 1857 to 1874.[6]

On 10 February 1829, he married Lady Georgiana Beauclerk, fifth daughter of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans[5] and his wife Maria née Nelthorpe. They had a daughter and a son, Hugh, who succeeded to the baronetcy.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. [2]
    Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 669–670.
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    Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 242.
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    "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Grantham". Archived from the original on 1 May 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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    "ThePeerage – Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Bt". Retrieved 12 January 2009.
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    "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, North Lincolnshire". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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