Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere (3 October 1811 – 1 August 1887), styled The Honourable from 1821 until 1855, was a British

United Kingdom

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 peer and politician.

Personal

Hugh Colmondeley was the eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley

Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere

Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere was a British peer and Member of Parliament.-Background:He was the son of Thomas Chomondeley , Member of Parliament for Cheshire...

 . His mother was Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, the granddaughter of Prime Minister George Grenville

George Grenville

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. Baron Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC , known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain....

, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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.

In 1848, Cholmondeley married Lady Sarah Hay-Drummond, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull

Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull

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; and the couple were childless when she died in 1859. He married again in 1860, this time to Augusta Emily Seymour, daughter of Sir George Hamilton Seymour

George Hamilton Seymour

Sir George Hamilton Seymour GCB, GCH, PC was a British diplomat.Seymour was the son of Lord George Seymour and Isabella, daughter of Reverend the Honourable William Hamilton. He married the Honourable Gertrude, daughter of General Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, in 1831. They had several children....

. The children of that marriage were:

• Hugh
  Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere
  Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere KCMG , styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya....
  
   (28 April 1870–13 November 1931).
• Sybil (29 December 1871–26 May 1911).

Baroness Delamere died in 1911. She had survived her husband for 24 years.

Career

Cholmondeley was elected to Parliament for Denbighshire

Denbighshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Denbighshire was a county constituency in Denbighshire, in north Wales, from 1542 to 1885.- History :From 1542, it returned one Member of Parliament , traditionally known as the knight of the shire, to the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707, then to the Parliament of Great...

 as a Tory

Tory

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 in 1840, a seat he held until 1841, and then represented Montgomery

Montgomery (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1841 to 1847. In 1855, Cholmondeley was called to the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 when he succeeded his father as second Baron Delamere.

Lands and estates

In this period, Baron Delamere and his family were inextricable from the history of Cheshire. The family seat was at Vale Royal Abbey.

Baron Delamere died at age 75 in August 1887; and he was succeeded in the lands, estates and title by the son from his second marriage, Hugh Cholmondeley

Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere

Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere KCMG , styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya....

.

External links

• National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 5639 (pencil drawing), Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere by Frederick Sargent (c. 1860s-1870s).