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George James Cholmondeley

1752 - 1830

This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.

Biographical notes

Lord Steward of the Household.

Slavery connections

George James Cholmondeley’s son, Revd Horace George Cholmondeley (1796–1851), ‘claimed apparently unsuccessfully for an annuity of £100 p.a. left to his wife under the will of her father Godschall Johnson I’. (UCL Department of History, ‘Rev. Horace George Cholmondeley’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1279023020> accessed 23 June 2021.)

Abolition connections

No known connections with abolition.

National Gallery painting connections

Donor: bequeathed in 1831: NG39, NG65; NG128 transferred on loan to National Portrait Gallery in 1883 (NPG 704).

Bibliography

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History, 'Rev. Horace George Cholmondeley', in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/1279023020
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