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 St George (Carrick MP) George St George (Carrick MP) Sir George St George, knight, of Dunmore (born by 1640 – died December 1713) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He represented Carrick in the Irish House of Commons from September 1703 to his death, sitting alongside his nephew Oliver St George. He was the younger son of Sir George St George, knight, of Carrickdrumrusk, brother of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, and grandson of Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux King of Arms. On 18 December 1666 he was granted over in the baronies of Dunmore, Ballymoe and Tiaquin, County Galway. He married Elizabeth,