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 CHOLMONDELEY. 245 Viscountcy [I.] V. Barony IV. M733. Earldom ") 3 t a nd 3. George (Cholmondeley), Eakl JJJ_ OP CHOLMONDELEY, &C, also VlSCOUNT CHOLMONDELEY or Kblls, &c. [I.], 2nd but 1st Hurv. s. and h.,i. 2 Jauy. 1702/3. M.P. for East Looe, 1724-27 ; for Windsor, 1727-33 ; Gov. of Chester, 1725. KB. (under the styk of Viscount Malpas), 27 May 1725, on the revival of that order. Master of the Robes, May to June 1727 ; Commissioner of the Admiralty, 1727-29 ; Master of the Horse to the Prince of Wales, 1728-35 ; Lord Liaut and Vice-Admiral of Chester, and Lord Lieut, of North Wales, 1733-70 ; Chamberlain of Chester, 1736 ; a Commissioner of the Treasury, 1735-36 ; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1736-43; P.O. 1736; Lord Lieut, of Montgomeryshire, 1737-61 ; Lord Prut Seal, Dec. 1743 to Dec. 1744 ; Joint Vice-Treasurer [I.], 1744. He was also Col. in the Army, 1745; Maj. Gen. 1755 ; Lieut. Gen., 1759. Lord of the Bedchamber, 1753. He m. 14 Sep. 1723, at St. Geo. Han. Sq., Mary, da. of (tho celebrated) Robert (Walpole), 1st Earl or OkpOKO, by, his 1st wife Catherine, da. of Sir John Shorter. The Lady (whose issue, in 1797, on the death of her brother Horace, the 4th Earl, became her Father's representatives), d. Dec. 1731, at Aix in Provence, aged 26, and was bur. at Malpas. He d. 10 June 1770, and was bur. 21, at Malpas. Will pr. Juue 1770. [George Cholmoxdeley, styled Viscount Malpas, s. and h. ap., b. 17 Oct 1724, at St. Geo. Han. Sq. M.P. for Bramber, 1754-61 ; for Corfe Castle, 1761-64. He served as a volunteer at the battle of Fontenoy, but became eventually Lieut. Col. of the 65th Regt. He was also in command against the insurgents of 1745. He n., 19 Jany. 1746/7, Hester, da. and h. of Sir Francis Edwabdes, 4th Bart, of Shrewsbury. He d. v. p. 15 March 1764, and was bur. at Malpas. Admori. 10 April 1761 to a creditor. His widow d. 3 Sep. 1794, at Hampton Court Palace, in her 67th year.(a) Will dated 26 June, pr. 19 Nov. 1794. Both bur. at Malpas.] Earldom IV. Viscountcy [I.] VI. Barony V. Marquessate I. 1 >1770. 1815. 4, 5, 4-, and 1. George James (Ciiolmondeley), Earl of Cholmondeley, &c, also Viscount Chol- mondeley or Ivells, &c. [I.], grandson and h», being only s. and h. of George Cholmondeley, styled Viscount Malpas, by Hester, his wife aboveuamed. He was 6. 11 May 1749, at Hardingstone, co. Northampton. Lord Lieut, of Cheshire, 1770-83 ; Chamberlain of Chester, 1770 ; Col. of the Cheshire Militia, 1771 ; Col. in the Army, during service, 1779 ; Envoy to Berlin, June to Sep. 1782; Capt. of the Yeomen of the Guard, 17S3-84; P.C, 1783 ; Chamberlain, &c, to the Prince of Wales, 1795 ; Lord Steward of the Household, 1812-21. On 22 Nov. 1815 he was cr. EARL OF ROCKSAVAGE, co. Chester.^) and MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY. G.C.H., 1816 ; K.G. 22 July 1822. He m. 25 (") Her mother Dame Hester Edwardes, widow, d. at Hampton Court Palace, 10 April 1805, at the great age of 98. ( b ) " Rock Savage " was the name Riven by Sir John Savage of Clifton, ncar Frodsham, co. Chester (who d. 1597), to "a magnificent mansion " (dilapidated before 1800), which he built near the old HalL On the extinction of his issue male in 1728, by the death of John (Savage), 5th and last Earl Rivers, the property passed (not long afterwards) to the Hon. James Cholmondeley (2nd a. of the 2nd Earl Cholmondeley), in right of his wife Penelope, da. of James (Barry), 4th Earl of Barrymore [I.], and only child of her mother, the Earl's second wife, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Richard (Savage) 4th Earl Rivers. The Lady Penelope Cholmondeley was divorced in 1736 and her husband d., s.p. legit., 13 Oct 1775, in his 68th year, when the estate, which in his irf/c'i right he had acquired, passed to his own great nephew, George James, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley. This same Earl, in 1797, became, in right of his mother, the heir, also, to Houghton, co. Norfolk, and the vast estates of his maternal grandfather tile celebrated Robert (Walpole), 1st Earl of Orford.