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 Jennings (MP) seat until the 1790 general election. George Jennings (MP) George Jennings ("c."1721 – 9 June 1790) was a British politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Whitchurch in Hampshire at a by-election in March 1757. He was returned for Whitchurch at the 1761 general election, and held the seat until the 1768 general election. He was elected as an (MP) for the borough of St Germans in Cornwall at a by-election in March 1768, and held the seat until the 1774 general election. At the 1784 general election he was returned as an