page_title: Charles Cholmondeley
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Cholmondeley / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Vale Royal Abbey Golf Club house The Club house was built on the site of what was England's largest Cistercian Abbey, founded by Edward I, who in 1277 laid the first foundation stone. It took a further 53 years to complete the Abbey. When constructed, the Abbey was larger than Westminster Abbey. In the 16th century, following Henry VIII's Reformation and Dissolution of the Monasteries Acts, Thomas Holdcroft purchased the estate and pulled down the Abbey and built the Great House.
context_page_description: Charles Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Cheshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1710 and 1756.
context_section_description: Cholmondeley was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal and his wife Anne St John, daughter of Sir Walter St John, 3rd Baronet of Battersea and Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts. In 1702 he succeeded his father to the estates at Vale Royal.  He was admitted at St. John’s College, Cambridge on 13 October. 1701 and at Middle Temple in August 1709. He married Essex Pitt,  daughter of Thomas Pitt (governor) of Stratford Wiltshire on 22 July 1714.
caption: Vale Royal Abbey
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