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| John Jervis Tollemache [CFT #11791] Born: 1805-Dec-5 Died: 1890-Dec-9 |
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| b d John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and a major landowner and estate manager in Cheshire, who was raised to the peerage as Baron Tollemache "of Helmingham Hall in Suffolk". Born as "John Jervis Halliday", he was the son of Admiral John Richard Delap Halliday (who in 1821 assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Tollemache in lieu of Halliday), the eldest son of Lady Jane Halliday, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (died 1770). His mother was Lady Elizabeth Stratford, a daughter of John Stratford, 3rd Earl of Aldborough Little is known concerning his education but it appears that he received a private education which did not lead to university. He inherited considerable wealth, including Helmingham Hall in Suffolk and estates in Northamptonshire, Cheshire and Ireland. Tollemache served as High Sheriff of Cheshire for 1840 and was then elected to the House of Commons as MP for Cheshire South from 1841 to 1868, and Cheshire West from 1868 to 1872. In 1876 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Tollemache, of Helmingham Hall in the county of Suffolk. He married twice: Firstly, in 1826, to Georgina Louisa Best (d.1846), a daughter of Thomas Best, by whom he had five children, including: Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache, eldest son and heir. He also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Cheshire West. On the death of his grandson, the third Baron this line of the family failed, and the title passed to the late Baron's second cousin, the fourth Baron. He was the son of Major-general Edward Tollemache, son of the Hon. Hamilton James Tollemache, fourth son of the first Baron. Currently (2022) the title is held by the fourth Baron's son, the fifth Baron, John Edward Tollemache (born 13th December 1939) who succeeded in 1975. He was Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk from 2003 to 2014. Secondly, in 1850, he married Eliza Georgiana Duff (d.1918), who was 24 years younger than her husband, a daughter of Sir James Duff, by whom he had a further nine children, including: Hon. John. R. D. Tollemache, eldest son by his second wife, who married Eleanor Starnes, a daughter of Hon. Henry Starnes by his wife Eleanor Stuart. Douglas Tollemache (1862-1944), Stratford Tollemache (1864?1937) and Mortimer Tollemache (1872 ? 1950), the three brothers who founded Tollemache Brewery.[5] Lord Tollemache died aged 85, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son from his first marriage, Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache. |
1: 1862 Douglas Alfred Tollemachec W/C 2: 1864 Stratford Tollemache 3: 1872 Mortimer Tollemache | ||||||||||
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