Sir Boteler Chernock, 4th Baronet (1696–1756) of

Holcot Holcot is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire in England. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 399 people. At the 2011 census this had increased to 438 people, living in 182 households. The villages ...

, Bedfordshire, was a British Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1740 to 1747. Chernock was baptized on 30 April 1696, the eldest son of

Sir Pynsent Chernock, 3rd Baronet Sir Pynsent Chernock, 3rd Baronet (before 1670 – 2 September 1734) was a Tory landowner and Member of Parliament from Bedfordshire. He became knight of the shire for the county in 1705 by a comfortable margin, but declined to contest it in the ...

MP, and his wife Helen Boteler, daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. He matriculated at

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in 1714. Chernock succeeded to an impoverished estate on 2 September 1734 because his father had to sell some of it to pay the expenses of his elections. It was said he was too honest and upright while in Parliament to sacrifice the liberties of his country for a place or pension. Chernock was returned as a Tory

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for

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at a by-election on 24 November 1740. He was again returned unopposed in

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, and voted against the Administration in all recorded occasions. He was defeated in

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by the Whig nominees of the 4th Duke of Bedford, and did not stand again. Chernock died unmarried in 1756 and was buried at Holcot on 4 August 1756. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Villers.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chernock, Sir Boteler, 4th Baronet 1696 births 1756 deaths British MPs 1734–1741 British MPs 1741–1747 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England