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 Buller (MP) George Buller (MP) George Buller (1607 – before August 1646) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1646. Buller was the son of Sir Richard Buller, of Shillingham, Cornwall and his wife Alice Hayward, daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward. The Buller family was originally from Somerset and acquired Shillingham in around 1555. In April 1640, Buller was elected Member of Parliament for Saltash in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Saltash for the Long Parliament in November 1640. Buller died before August 1646 when a writ was issued for his replacement