Charles Cholmondeley (politician)

Charles Cholmondeley (12 January 1685 – 1756) of Vale Royal, Cheshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1756.

Cholmondeley was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal and his second wife, Anne St John, daughter of Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet of Battersea and Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts.

Some of his Tory supporters in Cheshire abandoned him at the 1715 general election and he was defeated at the poll.

[2] When the Duke of Ormonde fled abroad in July 1715, Cholmondeley drank the Jacobite toast with Sir Henry Bunbury and Lord Barrymore.

From then on, he was returned as MP for Cheshire unopposed in 1741, 1747[3] and 1754 and continued to vote regularly against the government.