The Lord Delamere | |
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 Pencil drawing of Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere, by Frederick Sargent, circa 1860s or 1870s | |
| Born | 3 October 1811 Vale Royal, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 1 August 1887 (aged 75) Vale Royal, Cheshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Eton College |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Spouses | Lady Sarah Hay-Drummond
(m. 1848; died 1859)Augusta Seymour (m. 1860) |
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Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere (/ˈtʃʌmli/; 3 October 1811 – 1 August 1887), styled The Honourable from 1821 until 1855, was a British peer and politician.[1]
Hugh Cholmondeley was the eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley. His mother was Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn,[1] daughter of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, and Charlotte Grenville, and a granddaughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. Lord Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.[2]
In 1848, Cholmondeley married Lady Sarah Hay-Drummond, daughter of Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull; 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.[1] The children of that marriage were:
Lady Delamere died in 1911. She had survived her husband for 23 years.[1]
Cholmondeley was elected to Parliament for Denbighshire as a Tory in 1840, a seat he held until 1841, and then represented Montgomery from 1841 to 1847. In 1855, Cholmondeley was called to the House of Lords when he succeeded his father as second Baron Delamere.[4]
In this period, Baron Delamere and his family were inextricable from the history of Cheshire and married into the Hibbert Family of Birtles Hall, Cheshire who had made their fortune in Jamaica. The family seat was at Vale Royal Abbey.[5]
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.[1]