The Myddelton Baronetcy, of Chirk

Chirk

Chirk is a small town and local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in Wales. It has a population of over 4,000....

e in the County of Denbigh, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 4 July 1660 for Thomas Myddelton

Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1663...

, Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Flint, Montgomery

Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)

Montgomery was a constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England and later in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

 and Denbighshire

Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Denbighshire was a county constituency in Denbighshire, in north Wales, from 1542 to 1885.- History :From 1542, it returned one Member of Parliament , traditionally known as the knight of the shire, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then to the Parliament of Great...

. He was the son of the politician and Parliamentary general Sir Thomas Myddelton

Thomas Myddelton (younger)

Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle was a Welsh politician and Parliamentary general.-Early life:He was the son of Sir Thomas Myddelton. He matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, on 22 February 1605, and became a student of Gray's Inn in 1607. he was knighted on 10 February 1617, and was M.P...

 and the grandson of Sir Thomas Myddelton

Thomas Myddelton

Sir Thomas Myddelton was the fourth son of Richard Myddelton, Governor of Denbigh, and Jane Dryhurst.As a youth, he was apprenticed to a grocer in London, and made his fortune in trade...

, Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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 in 1613. The second and third Baronets both represented Denbighshire in the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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. The title became extinct on the early death of the fourth Baronet in 1718.

Myddelton Baronets, of Chirke (1660)

• Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1646 and 1663...
  
   (1624-1663)
• Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1679 and 1681.Myddelton was the son of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1st Baronet of Chirk Castle and his first wife Mary Cholmondley, daughter of Thomas Cholmondley of Vale Royal, Cheshire...
  
   (c. 1651-1684)
• Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet (1655-1716)
• Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet (1694-1718)