Henry James Tollemache was a British Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He served as the Member of Parliament

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 successively for West Cheshire

West Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 (1881–1885) and Eddisbury

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 (1885–1906).

He was the third child and eldest son of Wilbraham Spencer Tollemache and Anne Tomkinson of Dorfold Hall

Dorfold Hall

Dorfold Hall is a Jacobean mansion in Acton, near Nantwich, in Cheshire, UK. It is listed at grade I. It was considered by Nikolaus Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire.The present owners are the Roundells.-History:...

, Acton

Acton, Cheshire

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 in Cheshire

Cheshire

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. His father was the younger son of Admiral John Richard Delap Halliday (who assumed the surname and arms of Tollemache in 1821) and the brother of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache

John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache

John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache , was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and a major landowner and estate manager in Cheshire.-Personal life and career:...

. Henry Tollemache married Katharine Mary Frances Streatfeild in 1904; his wife died in 1916. The couple had no surviving children, and Dorfold Hall passed to his nephew, Christopher F. Roundell, the son of his eldest sister, Julia (1845–1931).

A painting of Tollemache and his sister Julia by "Hurleston" (possibly Frederick Yeates Hurlstone

Frederick Yeates Hurlstone

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) hangs in the Dining Room of Dorfold Hall. He played cricket for Nantwich Cricket Club with A. N. Hornby

A. N. Hornby

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