Nathaniel Cholmley

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

Howsham Hall, North Yorkshire

Nathaniel Cholmley, 1762 portrait

Life

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

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

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References
  1. "CHOLMLEY, Nathaniel (1721-91), of Howsham, and Whitby, Yorks". History of Parliament. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
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