Nationality English | Alma mater Cambridge University Name Hugh 6th | |
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Full Name George Hugh Cholmondeley Born 24 April 1919St George Hanover Square, London ( 1919-04-24 ) Residence Houghton HallCholmondeley Castle Spouse Lavinia Margaret Cholmondeley (m. 1947) Children David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Margot Lavinia Cholmondeley Parents Sybil Sassoon, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley Similar People David Cholmondeley - 7th Marq, Jack Huston, Philip Sassoon, Tony Huston, Mayer Amschel Rothschild | ||
George Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley GCVO MC DL (; 24 April 1919 – 13 March 1990), styled Earl of Rocksavage from 1923 until 1968, was a British peer and Lord Great Chamberlain of England between 1968 and 1990.
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Life and work
Cholmondeley was born in 1919 in St George Hanover Square, London, a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was the son of George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley and Sybil Sassoon, of the Sassoon and Rothschild family. His mother was Jewish (from a family from Iraq, India, Germany, and France). Like his great-great-grandfather, his great-granduncle, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, his father and his son, Cholmondeley was educated at Eton. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.
Cholmondeley served in the British army, initially in the Grenadier Guards and later in the 1st Royal Dragoons. During the Second World War, he saw action in the Middle East, in Italy, in France and in Germany. In 1943, he was decorated with the Military Cross (MC). When Cholmondeley retired from the military in 1949, he had attained the rank of Major.
Cholmondeley succeeded to his father's land, estates and title in 1968. He died at Cholmondeley Castle in 1990.
Marriage and children
Cholmondeley married Lavinia Margaret Leslie (9 September 1921 – 7 November 2015), daughter of Colonel John Leslie, on 14 June 1947. The children of that marriage were:
Lavinia, Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley lived at Cholmondeley Castle.
Lands and estates
The family seats are Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, which is surrounded by a 7,500 acres (30 km2) estate near Malpas, Cheshire.
Position at court
One moiety part of the ancient office of Lord Great Chamberlain is a Cholmondeley inheritance. This hereditary honour came into the Cholmondeley family through the marriage of the first Marquess of Cholmondeley to Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. The second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh holders of the marquessate have all held this office.