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) 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 Martha (nee Ashe, 1651-1688). He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford before being admitted to the Middle Temple. In 1705, Duckett was elected as one of the two members of parliament for Calne, in Wiltshire. He was re-elected in 1708 and 1722, and between 1722 and 1732