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 Duckett (Calne MP) Duckett and John Dennis together wrote anti-Popery booklet called "Pope Alexander's Supremacy and Infallibility Examin'd." On 23 March 1711, he married Grace Skinner (c. 1690-1755). The couple had nine children, eight of whom survived to adult life. He died at home on his Calne estate in 1732. George Duckett (Calne MP) George Duckett (19 February 1684 – 6 October 1732) was a British Member of Parliament (MP), attorney, and literary combatant of Alexander Pope. The heir of a very rich Lord Mayor of London, Lionel Duckett (1511-1587), George Duckett was the son of Lionel Duckett, MP (1652-1693) and his wife