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Vale Royal Great House, the former seat of the Barons Delamere. 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 Great House, formerly the seat of the Barons of Delamere – sold in 1947. Lord Delamere died in November 1931, at age 61. [35] He was survived by his second wife, formerly Gwladys, Lady Markham (née Gwladys Helen Beckett, daughter of Hon. Rupert Eveleyn Beckett). [36] His widow, Gwladys, became the second female Mayor of Nairobi.
Vale Royal Great House, formerly the seat of the Barons of Delamere – sold in 1947. Delamere died at the Soysambu ranch on 7 October 2024, at the age of 90. [3] His grandson, Hugh Cholmondeley (born 1998), succeeded him as 6th Baron Delamere.
Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere (/ ˈ tʃ ʌ m l i / CHUM-lee; 3 October 1811 – 1 August 1887), styled The Honourable from 1821 until 1855, was a British peer and politician. Personal [ edit ]
Vale Royal Abbey was originally founded in Darnhall by the Lord Edward, the future Edward I, before his accession to the throne.He was supposedly caught in rough weather crossing the English Channel in the early 1260s, during which, the abbey's own chronicler [note 1] later wrote, the King's son and his entourage feared for their lives.
"Lord Delamere," etching by Henry Calvert (1798–1869). Thomas Cholmondeley astride a dappled grey hunter. Vale Royal Great House, formerly the seat of the Barons of Delamere – sold in 1947. He was born on 9 August 1767 in Beckenham, Kent, the eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley (1726–1779), Vale Royal, Cheshire and Dorothy Cowper.
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 ...
There are several cafés, including the Station House Café at Delamere railway station and Delamere Café in Delamere Forest. Other services include a primary school (Delamere C of E Academy [6]), shop (Delamere Stores), community centre [7] and public house, the Vale Royal Abbey Arms on the A556. [8]