CHOLMLEY, Hugh (1600-1657), of Red Cross Street, London and Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent; later of Whitby, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. 22 July 1600, 1st s. of Sir Richard Cholmley* and his 1st w. Susannah, da. of John Legard, merchant of London and Ganton, Yorks.Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 254. educ. Beverley g.s. 1611-13; Jesus, Camb. 1614-17; G. Inn 1618-20. H. Cholmley, Memoirs, 31; Al. Cant.; GI Admiss. m. 10 Dec. 1622 (with £3,000), Elizabeth (d. 17 Apr. 1655), da. of Sir William Twysden* of Red Cross Street, London and Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.). Cholmley, 34, 36-39, 80-81; St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street (Harl. Soc. reg. lxxii), 6; Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 254. Kntd. 19 May 1626; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 190. suc. fa. 1631; Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 254. cr. bt. 10 Aug. 1641. CB, ii. 128. d. 30 Nov. 1657. Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 254. sig. Hu[gh] Cholmeley.

Offices Held

J.p. Yorks. (N. Riding) 1631-c.1644; C231/5, p. 64. commr. sewers, Yorks. 1632, oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1633–42; C181/4, ff. 114, 143. dep. lt. N. Riding 1636–40; Add. 28082, f. 81; Strafforde Letters (1739) ed. W. Knowler, ii. 193. col. militia ft., Scarborough and Whitby Strand 1636–40; E351/293. commr. subsidy, N. Riding 1641, Poll Tax 1641, assessment 1642;SR, v. 83, 107, 150. v.-adm. (roy.) Yorks. 1643-c.1644. Cholmley, 67–8.

Col. of horse and drag. (parl.) c. 1642; gov. Scarborough (parl.) 1642 – 43, (roy.) 1643–5); gen. (roy.) c.1643. Ibid. 59–60, 67–8.;separator

Commr. to attend the king at York, May 1642; CJ, ii. 559b; Cholmley, 65. treas. (jt.) assessment 1642. SR, v. 167.

Parlimentarian

CHOLMLEY, Hugh (1600-1657), of Red Cross Street, London and Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent; later of Whitby, Yorks.

Main residences: Red Cross Street, London; Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent; Whitby, Yorks.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CHOLMLEY, Hugh (1600-1657)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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