Thomas Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere (1900 – 1979), styled The Honourable from birth until 1931, was a British

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 peer.

Personal

Cholmondeley was the eldest son of Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere

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....

, whom he succeeded in 1931. His mother was Lady Florence Anne Cole, daughter of the Earl of Enniskillen. Cholmondeley was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole

Robert Walpole

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, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain

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In 1924, Cholmondeley married Phyllis Anne Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of Lord George William Montagu Douglas Scott (younger son of the Duke of Buccleuch) and Lady Elizabeth Emily Manners (daughter of the Duke of Rutland). The children of that marriage were:

• Hon. Elizabeth Florence Marion (b. 26 December 1925).
• Hon. Anne Jeannetta Essex (b. 2 September 1927).
• Hugh George
  Hugh Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere
  Hugh George Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere , styled The Honourable from birth until 1979, is a British peer. He is a well known figure in the evolution and development of post-colonial Kenya.-Personal:...
  
   (b. 18 January 1934).

Cholmondely had become Baron Delamere by the time he and Baroness Delamere were divorced in 1944. In June of the year, Baron Delamere re-married, this time to the Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of Lt.-Col. Wilfrid William Ashley, who was the first and last Baron Mount Temple

Baron Mount Temple

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, and Amalia Mary Maud Cassel

Ernest Cassel

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. This second marriage ended in divorce in 1955. On 26 March 1955, Baron Delamere married thirdly Diana Caldwell, daughter of Seymore Caldwell, better known as Diana Delves-Broughton.

Lands and estates

In this period, the Cholmondeley family continued to own land and estates in Cheshire; but Baron Delamere lived, worked and invested his life in building modern Kenya. In 1934, Lord Delamere moved his family into Vale Royal Abbey

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, only to be forced out in 1939 when the government converted Vale Royal to serve as a sanatorium for soldiers of World War II. The Cholmondeleys were restored to possession of the abbey after the war, but by 1947 the house and grounds had been sold.

Baron Delamere died at age 79 in August 1979; and he was succeeded in the lands, estates and title by his son from his first marriage, Hugh Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere

Hugh Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere

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