Henry Cholmley

Who is Henry Cholmley?

Sir Henry Cholmley of Roxby in Whitby Strand, was an English Member of Parliament.

He was the only son of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby, Yorkshire. He was educated at Hart Hall, Oxford, Jesus College, Cambridge 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 of the Parliament of England for Westmorland in 1597. He was knighted in 1603.

His wife, Margaret Babthorpe