Thomas Cholmondeley (1726–1779)
Thomas Cholmondeley, of Vale Royal, Cheshire was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1756 and 1768. He was elected MP for Cheshire in 1756 and 1761.
Biography
Cholmondeley was born on 24 June 1726, the third son of Charles Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Cheshire and Essex Pitt, daughter of Thomas Pitt of Stratford, Wiltshire. He attended Westminster School from 1740 to 1743 and was admitted to St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1743.On 29 October 1764, he married Dorothy Cowper, daughter of Edmund Cowper of Overleigh Hall in Cheshire, by whom he had six sons and three daughters:
- Hester Cholmondeley, married John Drummond, son of banker John Drummond)
- Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere
- Charles Cholmondeley, died in infancy
- Charles Cholmondeley, married on 13 January 1794, Caroline-Elizabeth Smyth, daughter of Nicholas Smyth of Cubley, Shropshire; sister and coheir of Nicholas Owen Smyth Owen of Condover.
- Essex Cholmondeley
- Hugh Cholmondeley, Dean of Chester
- Francis Cholmondeley, died unmarried
- Dorothy Cholmondeley, married Thomas Parker of Astle Hall
- Robert Cholmondeley