Henry James Tollemache

Henry James Tollemache (5 July 1846 – 2 April 1939) was a British Conservative politician and landowner in Cheshire. He served as the Member of Parliament successively for West Cheshire (1881–85) and Eddisbury (1885–1906), concentrating on agricultural issues. He was Deputy Lieutenant and Vice-Lieutenant of Cheshire (from 1924), and was also a justice of the peace and president of the Cheshire Agricultural Society. His father was the younger son of Admiral John Richard Delap Halliday (who assumed the surname and arms of Tollemache in 1821) and the brother of John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache.

Henry Tollemache was educated at Eton, where he studied with the Reverend F. E. Durnford, and then at Christ Church, Oxford (1870–72).

Parliamentary career and public service Tollemache was elected to one of the West Cheshire parliamentary seats in a by-election on 25 April 1881, He donated the land on which Nantwich Cottage Hospital was built (opened in 1911), and was the institution's first president until his death. He was manager and trustee of Acton School, The couple had no surviving children, and Dorfold Hall passed to his nephew, Christopher F. Roundell, the son of his eldest sister, Julia (1845–1931). and was the club's president. He was a lifelong Cheshire Hunt member, considered to be its oldest at the time of his death, and served as president of the Tarporley Hunt Club.

Henry Tollemache died at Dorfold Hall on 2 April 1939, after a brief illness. He was cremated at Manchester Crematorium, and his ashes were buried at St Mary's Church, Acton.