Person Cholmondeley; George (c 1666 - 1733); 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley Cholmondeley George c 1666 - 1733 British Male Whitehall, London 07 May 1733 Burial: Malpas, Cheshire

Soldier Education: Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford (matriculated 1680), DCL (1695). Inner Temple (admitted 1680) Career: Captain of Guards in Queen Consort's Regiment of Horse (1686); Lieutenant-Colonel (1689), then Colonel (1693-1715) of 1st Troop of Horse Guards; commanded the grenadier guards at the Battle of the Boyne (1689) and Steinkirk (1691); Groom of the Bedchamber (1691-1702); MP for Newton (1690-1695); Brigadier General (1697); Major General and Governor of the Forts of Tilbury and Gravesend (1702-1725); Privy Councillor (1706); Lieutenant General of 3rd Troop of Horse Guards (1715-death); Governor of Hull (1725-1732); Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire; Custos Routlorum of Cheshire; Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, Montgomeryshire, Flintshire, Merioneth, Carnarvonshire and Anglesey; General of the Horse (1727); Governor of Guernsey (1732-death) Honours: Baron Newborough of Newborough, Co Wexford (Irish) 1715; Baron Newburgh of Newburgh in the Isle of Anglesey (Mainland) 1716 Son of Robert Cholmondeley, 2nd Viscount Cholmondeley and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George Cradock of Caverswall Castle, Staffordshire, and his wife, Dorothy, daughter of John Saunders, DD, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; succeeded his brother Hugh Cholomondeley, 1st Earl and 3rd Viscount Cholmondeley (1725); married Elizabeth, daughter of Baron van Ruytenburg, Governor of Saas van Ghent, and his wife, Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Louis de Nassau, Herr van der Leck and Beverwaerde, Field Marshal of the Forces of the States General Fellow 09/06/1715 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; GEC References: Obituary, Gentleman's Magazine (1733), p.269. Notes: Proposed by John Theophilus Desaguliers International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 c 1666 - 7 May 1733 NA8402 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 69cb53a2-ca74-4f91-8b42-111f2edac066