Nathaniel Cholmley

{{Short description|British Member of Parliament}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} thumb|Nathaniel Cholmley, 1762 portrait '''Nathaniel Cholmley''' (15 November 1721 – 11 March 1791) was a British Member of Parliament. thumb|Howsham Hall, North Yorkshire

==Life== He was the son of Hugh Cholmley MP and his wife Catherine, the daughter of Sir John Wentworth, 1st Bt.<ref name="HoP"/>

He was selected High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1754–55.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=9342|page=1|date=29 January 1754 |nolink=y}}</ref>

He was elected to Parliament for the constituency of Aldborough from 1756 to 1768 and for Boroughbridge from 1768 to 1774.<ref name="HoP">{{cite web | url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/cholmley-nathaniel-1721-91 |title = CHOLMLEY, Nathaniel (1721-91), of Howsham, and Whitby, Yorks.|publisher= History of Parliament|accessdate = 1 November 2016}}</ref>

He commissioned the remodelling of his seat at Howsham Hall in North Yorkshire, employing Capability Brown to lay out the parkland.

==Family== Cholmley married three times; firstly in 1750, Catherine, the daughter of Sir Rowland Winn, 4th Baronet of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, with whom he had two daughters; secondly, in 1757, Henrietta Catherine, daughter of Stephen Croft of Stillington, Yorkshire who gave him a son and two daughters and thirdly, in 1774, Anne Jesse, daughter of Leonard Smelt of Langton, Yorkshire.

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