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 Garrard (MP) a by-election after the death of his uncle, Sir Thomas Gerard, 1st Baronet. In 1624 he represented Newtown (IOW) and was then elected for Preston in 1626 and 1628. In April 1640, he was elected for Hindon in the Short Parliament. He was ordained in 1635 and became Master of the London Charterhouse from 1638 to 1650. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Swallow of Saffron Walden, Essex, with whom he had one son, George. George Garrard (MP) George Garrett or Garrard (1579 – after 1650) was an English Member of Parliament. He was a younger son of Sir