Thomas Cholmondeley (1627–1702)

Thomas Cholmondeley (15 September 1627 – 26 February 1702), of Vale Royal, Cheshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1670 and 1687. He was elected MP for Cheshire in 1670 and 1685 and was Sheriff of Cheshire from 1660 to 1661.

Biography
Cholmondeley was born on 15 September 1627, the third son of Thomas Cholmondeley (1595 – 1653) of Vale Royal, Cheshire and Elizabeth Minshull, daughter of John Minshull of Minshull and Frances Egerton of Oulton.

He married, firstly, Jane Tollemache (d. 18 April 1666), daughter of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk and Elizabeth Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope of Harrington, by whom he had six sons and seven daughters:
 * Robert Cholmondeley
 * Thomas Cholmondeley
 * John Cholmondeley
 * Hugh Cholmondeley
 * Francis Cholmondeley
 * Elizabeth Cholmondeley
 * Catherine Cholmondeley
 * Jane Cholmondeley
 * Mary Cholmondeley
 * Unknown Cholmondeley
 * Anne Cholmondeley
 * Diana Cholmondeley

He married, secondly, Anne St. John, daughter of Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, by whom he had three sons and a daughter:
 * Seymour Cholmondeley
 * John Cholmondeley
 * Charles Cholmondeley (1685 – 1756) married Essex Pitt, daughter of Thomas Pitt of Stratford, Wiltshire.
 * Joanna Cholmondeley

He died on 26 February 1702 at Vale Royal and was buried on 2 March at Church Minshull, Cheshire. "Had he not lived in times of difficulties and divisions", wrote his Whig neighbour, "he had been the most popular commoner at home and abroad."