CHOLMONDELEY, Charles (1685-1756), of Vale Royal, Cheshire.

Charles Cholmondeley, whose father had represented Cheshire in 1669 and in James II’s 1685 Parliament, was returned for the county as a Tory at every general election, except that of 1715, from 1710 to his death. A member of the October Club, on the flight of the Duke of Ormonde in July 1715 Cholmondeley, Sir Henry Bunbury and Lord Barrymore met and drank together the Jacobite toast: ‘to our absent friends and that they may return with honour, prosperity and glory’.Prescott Diary, 24 Aug. 1715, The Cheshire Sheaf, 27 May 1936. In 1721 his name was included in a list of leading English Jacobites sent to the Stuart court in Rome.Stuart mss 65/16. After his re-election in 1722 he voted regularly against the Government, speaking against them on the repeal of the Septennial Act, 13 Mar. 1734.

He died 30 Mar. 1756.