DELAMERE 137 DELAMERE OF VALE ROYAL BARONY. I. Thomas Cholmondeley, s. and h. of Thomas C, T g of Vale Royal, co. Chester (</. 2 June 1779), by Dorothy, da. and coh. of Edmund Cowper, of Overleigh, co. Chester, was b. 9 Aug. 1767, at Beckcnham,^ Kent; SherifF of Cheshire 1792-93; M.P. (Tory) for that co. 1796-18 12. On 17 July 1 82 1, he was cr. BARON DELAMERE OF VALE ROYAL, CO. Chester. (^) He ;;;., 17 Dec. 18 10, at Ruabon, Henrietta Elizabeth, yst. da. of Sir Watkin Williams-Wvnn, 4th Bart., by his 2nd wife, Charlotte, da. of the Rt. Hon. George Grenville. She, who was b. 6 Feb. 1786, d'. 18 Aug. 1852, aged 65, at Vale Royal. Will pr. Oct. 1852. He d. 30 Oct. 1855, after a long illness, in Hereford Str., Hyde Park, aged 8 8.( ) II. 1855. 2. Hugh (Cholmondeley), Baron Delamere of Vale Royal, s. and h., b. 3 Oct. 181 1, at Vale Royal; ed. at Eton; matric. 21 May 1828 at Oxford (Ch. Ch.); sometime Lieut. 1st Life Guards; M.P. (Conservative) for Denbighshire, 1840-41; for Montgomery boroughs, 1841-47. ("=) He w., istly, 23 Mar. 1848, Sarah, 2nd da. of Thomas Robert (Hay), loth Earl of Kinnoull [S.], by Louisa Burton, da. of Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart. She, who was b. 4 Dec. 1828, in London, d. 17 Feb. 1859, at 29 Portman Sq., Marylebone. He m., 2ndly, 27 Dec. i860, at St. James's, Westm., Augusta EmilyjC) 1st da. of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.B., by Gertrude, da. of Henry Otway (Brand), Lord Dacre. He d. i Aug. 1887, at Vale Royal, and was bur. at Whitegate, Cheshire, aged 75. His widow, who was b. 6 Nov. 1835, ^- 25 Feb. 191 1, at her residence, Highcroft, Boscombe, Hants, aged 75, and was bur. from Vale Royal at Whitegate, afsd. Will pr. over ^"3 6,000. III. 1887. 3. Hugh (Cholmondeley), Baron Delamere of Vale Royal, s. and h., b. 2S Apr. 1870, at 14 Bruton Str., Midx. A Conservative. Since 19 1 1 he has been one of the leading settlers (*) This was one of the 22 peerages conferred at the Coronation of George IV. See an account of these in vol. ii, Appendix F. (*>) He was one of the 22 "stalwarts" who voted against the 3rd reading of the Reform Bill of 4 June 1832, after Wellington and the great bulk of the Opposition had decided to abstain. For a list of these see vol. iii, Appendix I. He, liowcver, followed Peel in his change of policy as to the Corn Laws, voting against Repeal in 1845, and for it in 1846. V.G. C') Unlike his father, he remained a Protectionist in 1846. He was again elected for the Montgomery Burghs on a double return in 1847, ^"^ ^^^ opponent was seated in 1848. V.G. ("*) Sir Horace Rumbold, in his Recollections, speaks of her as "a living Grcuze." V.G.
