Sir George Strickland, 7th Baronet MP for Yorkshire in 1831. In 1844 it seems to have been his opposition that was the principal objection to a projected railway joining Bridlington and York, proposed by George Hudson, which would have passed through Boynton; the railway was never built. In 1865, he inherited from Nathaniel Cholmley extensive estates at Whitby, Howsham and North Elmsall. In accordance with the terms of Cholmley's will, Strickland adopted by Royal Licence the surname Cholmley and the arms of Cholmley and Wentworth in place of his own and lived the remaining nine years of his life as Sir George Cholmley. On his
George Gale (MP) the poor of the City as well as monies to pay for repair of local roads. He was elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1529 after the death of Peter Jackson, one of two Members for the Constituency. Though he did not serve for the remainder of that Parliament, he stood for election in 1532-33. Gale was recorded as attending for most of that session. He was not recorded as having sat in the 1539 Parliament, but was re-elected for his final term in 1539. George Gale (MP) George Gale was Member of Parliament for York during the Parliaments