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 Gipps (MP for Ripon) George Gipps (MP for Ripon) George Gipps (29 December 1783 – 26 April 1869) of Howletts, near Canterbury, Kent, was an English politician. He was born the eldest son of George Gipps, MP of Harbledown, near Canterbury, Kent and educated at Charterhouse School (1793), St. John’s College, Cambridge (1801) and Lincoln's Inn (1805). In 1816 he purchased the recently rebuilt Howletts House, between Littlebourne and Bekesbourne, where he and his wife lived until their deaths. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon 1807 to 1826. He married Jane, the daughter of John Bowdler of Hayes. He had 6