George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley

Lieutenant-General George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley, ( ; 2 January 1703 – 10 June 1770), styled as Viscount Malpas from 1725 to 1733, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who represented East Looe and Windsor in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1724 to 1733.

Life

Cholmondeley was the son of George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, and Elizabeth van Ruyterburgh (or Ruttenburg). He was elected to the House of Commons for East Looe in 1724, a seat he held until 1727, and then represented Windsor between 1727 and 1733, when he succeeded his father as third Earl of Cholmondeley and entered the House of Lords. He held office under his father-in-law Sir Robert Walpole as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1727 to 1729, as a Lord of the Treasury from 1735 to 1736 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1736 to 1743 (from 1742 to 1743 under the premiership of The Earl of Wilmington). From 1743 to 1744 he also served as Lord Privy Seal under Henry Pelham and was Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland between 1744 and 1757. In 1736, he was admitted to the Privy Council.

Cholmondeley's extravagance outran the income of his offices, and by the end of 1746, he was forced to render up all his property to settle his debts.

George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas (1724–1764)
Hon. Robert Cholmondeley (1727–1804)
Hon. Frederick Cholmondeley (d. 29 April 1734), died in infancy
a daughter, died shortly after birth

Lady Mary died on 21 February 1731/2, at Aix. Robert was married to the socialite Mary Woffington.

The actress Maria Nossiter was the daughter of Lord Cholmondeley's "favourite" housekeeper. Maria was educated, had money and enjoyed a successful, but brief, career. It is supposed that she was his daughter.