Peter Venables (22 April 1604 – 13 February 1669) of

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, Cheshire, was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1640 and 1669. He supported the

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cause in the

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. Venables was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Venables, a "Baron of Kinderton", and his wife Anne Gargrave, daughter of Sir

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, Yorkshire, and educated at

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. He succeeded his father in 1605, inheriting eight manors in Cheshire and saltworks in Nantwich and Middlewich and was pricked

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in 1633–34.Venables of Kinderton
/ref> In November 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the

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. He supported the King in the Civil War and was disabled from sitting on 22 January 1644. In 1661, after the

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, Venables was again elected MP for Cheshire in the

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, holding the seat until his death. Venables died in 1669 at the age of 64. He had married firstly Mary Wilbraham, daughter of Sir Richard Wilbraham of Woodhey and secondly Frances Cholmondeley sister of Sir Robert Cholmondeley.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Venables, Peter 1604 births 1669 deaths Cavaliers English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1661–1679 High sheriffs of Cheshire Members of Lincoln's Inn