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2o6 MARQUESSATE III. CHOLMONDELEY 3, 6, 7, and 6. William Henry Hugh (Cholmondeley), Marquess of Cholmon- DELEY, &'c., also Viscount Cholmondeley OF Kells, &fc. [I.], br. and h., l>. 31 Mar. 1800, in Piccadilly, Midx.; ed. at Eton matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 1 3 Nov. 1 8 1 8 1870. M.P. (Tory) for Castle Rising, 1822-32 and (after 20 years) for South Hampshire, 1852-57. He m., 28 Feb. 1825, at Chol- mondeley House, Piccadilly, Marcia Emma Georgiana, da. of the Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, sometime Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who i^. 18 Aug. 1850, aged 82. She, who was ip. 10 Oct. 1804, d. 3 Nov. 1878, at I Hyde Park Str., Midx. He ^. 16 Dec. 1884, aged 84, at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and was hir. in the cemetery of Kensal Green, Midx.Q EARLDOM. VL VISCOUNTCY [I.] VIIL BARONY. VIL MARQUESSATE. IV. 4, 7, 8, and 7. George Henry Hugh (Cholmondeley), Marquess of Cholmon- deley [18 1 5], Earl of Cholmondeley [1706], Earl of Rocksavage [18 15], Vis- count Malpas [1706], Baron Cholmonde- ley OF Namptwich [1689], and Baron • 1884. Newburgh [1716]; also Viscount Chol- mondeley OF Kells [1661], and Baron Newborough [17 1 5], in the Peerage of Ireland; also Joint (hereditary) Great Chamberlain OF England; grandson and h., being only s. and h. of Charles George Cholmondeley, by Susan Caroline, da. of Sir George Dashwood, Bart., which Charles George was ist s. of the last Marquess, but d. 7 Dec. 1869, aged 40, the year before his father inherited the Peerage. He was l>. 3 July 1858, at Kirtlington Park, Oxon; acted as Great Chamberlain at the Corona- tion of Edward VII. P.C. 24 July 1901. A Conservative. He m., 16 July 1879, ^^ St. Geo., Han. Sq., Winifred Ida, yst. da. of Lieut. Col. EARLDOM. VII. VISCOUNTCY [I.] IX. BARONY. VIII. (*) " Like his elder brother he was a generous supporter of most of those religious societies which have, or used to have, their home at Exeter Hall ; and his name was frequently to be seen side by side with those of Lord Shaftesbury and Lord Chichester among the lists of patrons of good and charitable works, especially such as were indorsed by the Evangelical party." {The Times Obituary). Of his eight children (of whom two sons had married and had issue), but two survived him, viz., his eldest da., Charlotte Georgiana, wife of the Rev. Edward Gladwin Arnold, and his 2nd da., then unm.