CHOLMLEY, Sir Richard (1580-1631), of Whitby, Yorks.

Family and Education

b. Oct. 1580, 1st s. of Sir Henry Cholmley† of Whitby and Roxby, Yorks. and Margaret, da. of Sir William Babthorpe of Osgodby, Yorks.H. Cholmley, Memoirs (1787), pp. 13-17. educ. Trin. Coll. Camb. 1595. Al. Cant. m. (1) 29 Nov. 1596 (with £2,000), Susannah (d.1611), da. of John Legard, merchant of London and Ganton, Yorks., 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. (d.v.p.); (2) 22 Nov. 1613 (with £2,000) Margaret, da. of William Cobb, merchant of London, 4s. (2 d.v.p.). Cholmley, 28-9; Vis. Yorks. ed. Foster, 219-21; Yorks. Arch. Jnl. ix. 372; St. Michael Bassishaw (Harl. Soc. reg. lxxii), 125; Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 54. Kntd. 9 July 1603; Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 113. suc. fa. 1616. d. 23 Sept. 1631. Clay, Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 254. sig. Richard Cholmeley.

Offices Held

Commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) by 1604–d., C181/1, f. 86; 181/3, f. 120. j.p. c. 1604 – c.14, 1622–d., STAC 8/12/11; N. Riding Q.S. Recs. ed. J.C. Atkinson, ii. 36; Cholmley, 21; C231/4, p. 142. dep. lt. 1623, SP14/151/69. collector (jt.), tenths 1624, E179/283, vol. ‘TG 28398’. commr. subsidy 1624, oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 1625–d.; C212/22/23; C181/3, f. 139v. sheriff, Yorks. 1624–5; List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 163. member, Council in the North 1625–d. R. Reid, Council in the North, 498.

Parlimentarian

CHOLMLEY, Sir Richard (1580-1631), of Whitby, Yorks.

Main residence: Whitby, Yorks.

Author

S.H.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CHOLMLEY, Sir Richard (1580-1631)

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Oxford 1644

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