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History
& family research project of Lord Delamere, from 1st Lord
Delamere to the present 5th Lord Delamere, and the Cholmondeley
family.
Note:
This brief history is only in its preliminary stages and we acknowledge
that errors may be contained in this report, but we request that
any information or additional details be submitted to our research
department, which is staffed by volunteers. Send your information
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The
first recorded use of the title "Lord Delamere" referring
or related to an English family is in 1661 AD, when King Charles
the Second (1660-1685) created this title for Sir George Booth
(1622-1684) for his loyalty to the English Crown, because Sir
George was a staunch Royalist during the Cromwell era. Sir George
Booth lived in the area north of Chester at Dunham
Massey Hall, Dunham Massey, Cheshire. Sir George had a son
and heir named Henry.
Henry
Booth, 2nd Lord Delamere and Earl of Warrington (1652-1694) had
a son named George (1688-1758) who also upon the death of his
father Henry became Earl of Warrington and 3rd Lord Delamere,
but the Earldom became extinct in 1758 upon the death of George
who had no male heir. (Earldoms can only pass to a direct male
descendent).
George's brother Nathaniel had taken up the title 4th Lord Delamere
but this title also became extinct in 1770 on the death of Nathaniel,
as the son of Nathaniel also named Henry (1710-1784) refused to
take up the title Lord Delamere for personal reasons. This last
Henry Booth was entitled to the designation of Lord Delamere,
but not having any child born in wedlock he refused to claim the
Title, and the barony of Delamere terminated in the person of
Nathaniel the 4th baron in 1770; and reverted back to the English
Crown. The title was revived in 1821 by the Vale Royal branch
of the Cholmondeley family.
Thomas
Hugh Cholmondeley (1767-1855) therefore acceded to the
title of Lord Delamere by purchasing the Barony Title from the
crown for £5000 in 1821 (which by the way is the equivalent
of over £1 million today, 2009) he overpaid for the title
as it was originally offered at £1200 but other prominent
individuals were also bidding for the title. He thus became the
1st
Baronacy, Lord Delamere and had his name entered into the
list of British Peers (House of Lords). Thomas Hugh (1767-1855)
also apparently spent massive amounts of the family funds inherited
from the Holford family through his Grandmother Mary Holford,
to extravagantly refurbish and further renovate the Great
House and Great Hall at Vale Royal in Cheshire.
Thomas
Hugh married Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, from Denbigh,
Wales, in 1810, and they had 5 sons (or more likely 4 sons) and
one daughter. Henrietta Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Hugh, died
in 1852 aged 66 years old and Thomas Hugh died in 1855 aged 88.
The eldest son was named Hugh Cholmondeley (1811-1887)
(Welsh records state 1812 as being the year of birth) and he became
the 2nd
Lord Delamere in 1855 upon the death of his father Thomas
Hugh.
Our
researchers are especially interested in obtaining more information
on the 5 children of the 1st Lord Delamere. The following are
the recorded children. namely, Hugh Cholmondeley, born
1811, Thomas Grenville Cholmondeley, born 1818, Henry
Pitt Cholmondeley, born 1820 or 1823, Charles Watkin
Neville Cholmondeley, born 1825, and the only daughter Henrietta
Charlotte Cholmondeley, born in 1823 or 1835. We invite
any of our readers or site visitors to submit any information
they have obtained or can be referenced. Meantime you can also
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Outline of Research project:
"
Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere" (1767-1855)
"
Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere" (1811-1877)
"
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere" (1870-1931)
" Thomas
Pitt Hamilton Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere" (1900-1979)
"
Hugh George Cholmondeley, 5th Baron Delamere" (1934-present)
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