Ralph Cholmley

Ralph or Ranulph Cholmley (by 1517–63), of London, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Mitchell in 1547, Bodmin in March 1553 and for Boroughbridge April 1554 and for London in November 1554, 1555, 1558, 1559 and 1563.[1]

Cholmly was Recorder of London. At the coronation of Elizabeth I in 1559, during the royal entry, Cholmley made a specech and presented the City's gift of a purse of gold coins.[2]

References
  1. "CHOLMLEY, Ralph (by 1517-63), of London. - History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org.
  2. Alice Hunt, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2008), p. 166.


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