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Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere (; 3 October 1811 – 1 August 1887), styled The Honourable from 1821 until 1855, was a British peer and politician.
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Personal
Hugh Colmondeley was the eldest son of Thomas Cholmondeley. His mother was Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, the granddaughter of Prime Minister George Grenville. Baron Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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. The children of that marriage were:
Baroness Delamere died in 1911. She had survived her husband for 24 years.
Career
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.
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.