Peter Venables (MP)

Peter Venables (22 April 1604 – 13 February 1669) of Kinderton, Cheshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1669.

Venables was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Venables, a "Baron of Kinderton", and his wife Anne Gargrave, daughter of Sir Cotton Gargrave of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire, and educated at Lincoln's Inn.

[2] He supported the King in the Civil War and was disabled from sitting on 22 January 1644.

In 1661, after the Restoration of the Monarchy, Venables was again elected MP for Cheshire in the Cavalier Parliament, holding the seat until his death.

He had married firstly Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir Richard Wilbraham of Woodhey and secondly Frances Cholmondeley sister of Sir Robert Cholmondeley.