According to
Collinson (died 1793), today's Cholwell was the manor of
Cilele listed in the
Domesday Book of 1086.
Mogg In 1726 the manor of Cholwell was purchased by Richard Mogg (1690-1729) of
Chewton Mendip, Somerset, son of John Mogg (d.1728) of the
Manor House,
Farrington Gurney in Somerset,
Sheriff of Somerset in 1703, by his wife Dorothy Hippisley (1610-1673), a daughter of Edward Hippisley of Chewton Mendip. Richard's granddaughter was Mary Mogg (1744-1829), heiress of Cholwell, who in 1772 married William Wooldrige, whose family was from Dudmaston in
Shropshire.
Rees-Mogg Rev. John Rees-Mogg (1772-1835) '' (1967–81), chairman of the
Arts Council of Great Britain, and vice-chairman of the
BBC, created a
Life Peer in 1988. In 1964 he purchased the large Georgian mansion house Ston Easton Park near
Bath, Somerset, built by John Hippisley-Coxe (died 1769), a relative of his ancestress Dorothy Hippisley, the wife of John Mogg (d.1728) of Farington Gurney, whose son purchased Cholwell in 1726. In 1978 he sold Ston Easton to the Smedley family. He married Gillian Shakespeare Morris, a daughter of
Thomas Richard Morris, a lorry driver, car salesman and, later, local Conservative councillor who served for a year as
Mayor of St Pancras in London. He had five children with his wife Gillian. His second son is
Jacob Rees-Mogg (born 1969), of
Gournay Court in the parish of
West Harptree in Somerset, a financier and from 2010 until 2024 the
Conservative party Member of Parliament for
North East Somerset, in which constituency is situated Cholwell House. Jacob's official website states: "Being elected fulfilled his ambition to represent the Somerset parliamentary seat in which his family has lived for generations". ==References==