Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Baronet (5 August 1802 – 18 January 1874)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician and baronet.
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]
See also
[edit]- Cholmeley baronets
- Easton Hall, the family seat
References
[edit]- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
((cite web)): CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (28th ed.). London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 669–670.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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) - ^ a b "ThePeerage – Sir Montague John Cholmeley, 2nd Bt". Retrieved 12 January 2009.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, North Lincolnshire". Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
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