Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet (21 July 1632 – 9 January 1689) was an English

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 politician and baronet.

Born at Fyling Hall

Fyling Hall

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, near Whitby

Whitby

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 in Yorkshire

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, he was the second son of Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet

Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet

Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament and Royalist leader during the English Civil War. His name is sometimes spelled Cholmley....

 and his wife Elizabeth Twysden, daughter of Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet

Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet

Sir William Twysden, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1628....

. Cholmeley succeeded his nephew as baronet

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 in 1665. and was afterwards appointed Governor of Tangier in Morocco

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 by King Charles II of England. From February to August 1679, he was a Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Northampton

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, and from 1685 to 1687 for Thirsk

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On 19 February 1665, Cholmeley married Lady Anne Compton, oldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Northampton

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton

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 at Hamerton

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 in Huntingdonshire

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. They had a daughter, but no son, so with his death the baronetcy became extinct.