Henry Cholmley (died 1616)

Sir Henry Cholmley or Cholmeley of Roxby in Whitby Strand (1556–1616), was an English Member of Parliament.

He was a son of Sir Richard Cholmley (died 1583) of Whitby, Yorkshire.^[1] His mother was Richard Cholmley's second wife, Catherine (died 1598), a daughter of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland. His half-brother, Francis Cholmley died in 1586.^[2] Another relation, Marmaduke Cholmley of Brandsby, would challenge him as heir of the Cholmeley estates.

He was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford (by 1568), Jesus College, Cambridge (1573) and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow commoner in 1573, after which he studied law at Lincoln's Inn in 1577. On the death of his half-brother in 1596 he inherited the family seat at Whitby.

He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Westmorland in 1597. He was knighted in 1603.

Though his wife Margaret was a devout Roman Catholic recusant, the couple converted to Protestantism in 1603.^[3] During the 1590s, Margaret Cholmley and his mother allowed Catholic priests to stay at their house in Whitby, which was near the former Whitby Abbey.^[4]

Henry Cholmley died at York after a hunting accident in 1616.^[5]

Marriage and children

Around 1575, Henry Cholmley married Margaret Babthorpe, daughter of Sir William Babthorpe, a son of Sir William Babthorpe, and Barbara, daughter of Sir Robert Constable), whom he married in about 1575.

Their children included:

Richard Cholmley (died 1631), his heir, and father of Henry Cholmley (1609–1666)
Barbara Cholmley (c. 1575 – 28 February 1619) who married Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg.
Two other sons and eight daughters.

Brandsby family

Marmaduke Cholmley and Richard Cholmley of Brandsby were sons of Roger Cholmley, an uncle of Henry Cholmley (died 1616). Marmaduke married Ursula Aslaby. They were recusants. Richard, who married Mary Hungate by Catholic rite before 1607,^[6] and harboured Jesuits in November 1609,^[7] is associated with travelling players.^[8]

References

^ CHOLMLEY, Sir Richard (by 1516-83), of Roxby, Thornton-on-the-Hill and Whitby, Yorks, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982
^ A. G. Dickens, Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century (Durham, 1962), pp. 52–53, 113–114.
^ "Female-line family tree | Richard III: Discovery and identification | University of Leicester".
^ Michael Hodgetts & Paul Hodgetts, Secret Hiding Places: Priest Holes: An Incredible True Story of Faith and Ingenuity (Pear Branch Press, 2024), pp. 128, 264.
^ CHOLMLEY, Henry (1556-1616), of Whitby, Yorks, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
^ John Gough Nichols, Herald and Genealogist, 8, p. 233: J. W. Clay, Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, 2 (Exeter, 1907), p. 250
^ Michael Questier, Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 66–67: Dawson Turner, Descriptive Index of the Contents of Five Manuscript Volumes (Great Yarmouth, 1851), p. 114 no. 27: Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610 (London, 1857), p. 570: John Morris, Troubles of Our Catholic Forefathers, 3 (London, 1877), pp. 464–465.
^ G. W. Boddy, "Players of Interludes in North Yorkshire in the Early Seventeenth Century", North Yorkshire County Record Office Journal, 3 (1976), pp. 95-130 at 114.

"CHOLMLEY, Henry (1556-1616), of Whitby, Yorks". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

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[1] CHOLMLEY, Sir Richard (by 1516-83), of Roxby, Thornton-on-the-Hill and Whitby, Yorks, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982

[2] A. G. Dickens, Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century (Durham, 1962), pp. 52–53, 113–114.

[3] "Female-line family tree | Richard III: Discovery and identification | University of Leicester".

[4] Michael Hodgetts & Paul Hodgetts, Secret Hiding Places: Priest Holes: An Incredible True Story of Faith and Ingenuity (Pear Branch Press, 2024), pp. 128, 264.

[5] CHOLMLEY, Henry (1556-1616), of Whitby, Yorks, The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981

[6] John Gough Nichols, Herald and Genealogist, 8, p. 233: J. W. Clay, Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with additions, 2 (Exeter, 1907), p. 250

[7] Michael Questier, Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 66–67: Dawson Turner, Descriptive Index of the Contents of Five Manuscript Volumes (Great Yarmouth, 1851), p. 114 no. 27: Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1603–1610 (London, 1857), p. 570: John Morris, Troubles of Our Catholic Forefathers, 3 (London, 1877), pp. 464–465.

[8] G. W. Boddy, "Players of Interludes in North Yorkshire in the Early Seventeenth Century", North Yorkshire County Record Office Journal, 3 (1976), pp. 95-130 at 114.

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