sentences:  He married Mary, daughter and heiress of Reverend Charles Constable, of Wassand.In 1865, he succeeded to the substantial estates of Nathaniel Cholmley and assumed the same year by Royal permission the surname of Cholmley in lieu of his patronymic for himself and those of his heirs male who may succeeded to the Cholmley estates.However, his son and successor, the eighth Baronet, kept the surname Strickland.