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'''Peter Bold''' (c.1705–1762) of [[Bold, St Helens|Bold Hall]] in [[Prescot, Lancashire]], was a British landowner and [[Tory]] politician who sat in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] between 1727 and 1761.

== Biography ==
Bold was the eldest son of [[Richard Bold]], MP, and his wife Elizabeth Norton, daughter of Thomas Norton of [[Barkisland]], [[Yorkshire]]. In 1704 as an infant, he succeeded to his father’s estates. He matriculated at [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] on 2 February 1722, aged 16.<ref name=ALUM>{{alox2|title=Bold, Peter}}</ref> He married Anna Maria Sylvester, widow of Rev. Edward Sylvester of Barthwaite and daughter of Godfrey Wentworth of Woolley Park, Yorkshire.<ref name = HOP>{{cite web| url =http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bold-peter-1705-62 | title=BOLD, Peter (?1705-62), of Bold Hall, Prescot, Lancs. | publisher= History of Parliament Online (1715-1754)| accessdate = 25 March 2019 }}</ref>    Bold was responsible for the building of Bold Hall in  about 1732. It was designed and erected under the supervision of the Italian architect [[Giacomo Leoni]] and was a very substantial and uniform edifice, with fine stone columns and corresponding decorative dressings.<ref name=BHO>{{cite web |url =   http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp402-409 |title= 'Townships: Bold', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 402-409.  | author=   |publisher= British History Online| accessdate =  25 March 2019 }}</ref>

At the [[1727 British general election]]  Bold was returned unopposed as  Tory [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)|Wigan]] under an agreement made with Lord Barrymore. He did not stand at the [[1734 British general election]].  He was returned unopposed as MP for [[Lancashire (UK Parliament constituency)|Lancashire]] at a by-election on 4 May 1736 when [[Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby|Sir Edward Stanley]] went to the House of Lords. He withdrew at the [[1741 British general election]] when [[James Smith-Stanley, Lord Strange|Lord Strange]] threatened  a contest. He  stood unsuccessfully for Lancashire at the [[1747 British general election]] and was returned there unopposed at a by-election on 23 January 1750.<ref name=HOP/>

Bold was returned unopposed for Lancashire at the [[1754 British general election]]. He did not stand again in [[1761 British general election|1761]].<ref name = HOP2>{{cite web| url =http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/bold-peter-1762  | title=BOLD, Peter (d.1762), of Bold Hall, Prescot, Lancs. | publisher= History of Parliament Online (1754-1790)| accessdate = 25 March 2019 }}</ref>

Bold  died on 12 September 1762. He and his wife had six daughters. The eldest, Anna Maria, succeeded to Bold Hall and his other estates, and died unmarried in 1813, aged eighty-one. Another daughter Dorothea married Thomas Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington and their son Peter Patten inherited Bold Hall from his aunt in 1813.<ref name=BHO/> The Hall was demolished at the end of the 19th century and Old Bold Hall which preceded it was demolished in 1936.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.suttonbeauty.org.uk/suttonhistory/sutton_halls_houses/ Sutton Beauty and Heritage An Illustrated History of Old Sutton in St. Helens, Lancashire (Pictures of Bold Hall)]

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