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Baron Delamere, of Vale Royal in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 17 July 1821 for Thomas Cholmondeley , a former Member of Parliament for Cheshire .
Vale Royal Abbey is a former medieval abbey and later country house in Whitegate, England. The precise location and boundaries of the abbey are difficult to determine in today's landscape. The original building was founded c. 1270 by the Lord Edward, later Edward I, for Cistercian monks. Edward had supposedly taken a vow during a rough sea ...
Delamere is a village and former civil parish, ... (Delamere Stores), community centre [7] and public house, the Vale Royal Abbey Arms on the A556. [8] ...
The central bay contains a porch above which are the arms of Vale Royal Abbey. [2] Stables, Vale Royal Abbey Arms: 1818 The stables were extended later in the 19th century. They are constructed in sandstone with a hipped slate roof.
An undated document quoted by Ormerod lists 62 townships and villages within the two forests (although several of these places were exempt from forest law); as the document mentions Vale Royal Abbey, this must refer to some time between the abbey's foundation in 1277 and its dissolution in 1536. [1]
The family seat was at Vale Royal Abbey. [ 3 ] 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 .
Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. [4] The Cholmondeleys were long established at their seat at Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire which had been in the family since 1615. [5] Cholmondeley was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1781 and entered Pembroke College, Oxford in 1785. [1]
However, Lord Delamere lived, worked and invested most of his life in building modern Kenya. In 1934, Tom Delamere moved his family into Vale Royal Abbey, only to be forced out in 1939 when His Majesty's Government converted Vale Royal to serve as a sanatorium for soldiers of World War II. The Cholmondeleys were restored to possession of the ...