Lord Delamere, 90, the fifth Baron, Kenyan landowner

[Mig.Rhodes]

The Baron Delamere, who has died aged 90, was the fifth baron in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom, a landowner in Kenya, of the family who
were central figures in the 'Happy Valley Set'.

https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-5th-baron-delamere-1934-2024.html

Hugh George Cholmondeley was born 18 January, 1934, son of the 4th Baron
Delamere (1900-1979), and his first wife the former Phyllis Anne Montagu
Douglas Scott (1904-1978), scion of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry
(and a granddaughter of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and the 7th Duke of
Rutland). The Delameres were members of the Kenyan 'Happy Valley' set,
made famous by the book and film 'White Mischief'.

Hugh Cholmondeley's step-mother, was the femme fatale and beauty Diana
Colvile (former wife of Vernon Motion; widow of Sir Henry John Delves
Broughton, 11th Bt.; former wife of Gilbert de Preville Colvile; who
died in 1987), 2nd daughter of Seymour Caldwell, of Hove, co. Sussex.
Before she married the 4th Baron, she was at the centre of a story so
shocking that it was turned into the best-selling book White Mischief,
later a film starring Greta Scacchi as the libidinous socialite. In 1941
Diana's lover the Earl of Erroll, a dissolute womaniser – played by
Charles Dance in the film – was shot dead at the wheel of his car on the
outskirts of Nairobi. But there were no witnesses to the shooting and
the crime remains unsolved.

As the Hon Hugh Cholmondeley he married 11 Apr 1964, Mrs Ann Willoughby
Tinné (former wife of Michael Patrick Tinné), & only daughter of Sir
Patrick Muir Renison GCMG (1911-1965), of Freeman's Farm House,
Mayfield, co. Sussex, sometime Governor of Kenya, by whom he had one
son.

The Old Etonian succeeded his father as 5th Baron Delamere, 13 April,
1979. His homes were the vast 200,000 acre estate at Sugoni Farm,
Soysambu, Elmenteita, Kenya, and in London's Holland Park Road.

Lord and Lady Delamere had one son, the Hon Thomas Patrick Gilbert
Cholmondeley (born 19 January, 1968). In April 2005 at Kenya Thomas
Cholmondeley accidentally shot and killed an undercover Kenya Wildlife
Service ranger, believing him to be an armed robber, and in May 2009 at
Kenya he was convicted of manslaughter for killing a poacher on his
estate in May 2006. He died from a cardiac arrest, 16 August, 2016.

Lord Delamere is succeeded in the peerage (created in 1821), by a
grandson, Hugh Cholmondeley, who was born 9 November, 1998.

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[Louis Epstein]

Post by Mig.Rhodes
The Baron Delamere, who has died aged 90, was the fifth baron in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom, a landowner in Kenya, of the family who
were central figures in the 'Happy Valley Set'.
https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-5th-baron-delamere-1934-2024.html
Hugh George Cholmondeley was born 18 January, 1934, son of the 4th Baron
Delamere (1900-1979), and his first wife the former Phyllis Anne Montagu
Douglas Scott (1904-1978), scion of the Dukes of Buccleuch & Queensberry
(and a granddaughter of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and the 7th Duke of
Rutland). The Delameres were members of the Kenyan 'Happy Valley' set,
made famous by the book and film 'White Mischief'.
Hugh Cholmondeley's step-mother, was the femme fatale and beauty Diana
Colvile (former wife of Vernon Motion; widow of Sir Henry John Delves
Broughton, 11th Bt.; former wife of Gilbert de Preville Colvile; who
died in 1987), 2nd daughter of Seymour Caldwell, of Hove, co. Sussex.
Before she married the 4th Baron, she was at the centre of a story so
shocking that it was turned into the best-selling book White Mischief,
later a film starring Greta Scacchi as the libidinous socialite. In 1941
Diana's lover the Earl of Erroll, a dissolute womaniser – played by
Charles Dance in the film – was shot dead at the wheel of his car on the
outskirts of Nairobi. But there were no witnesses to the shooting and
the crime remains unsolved.

I note that Diana's Delamere marriage is ignored
in the notes closing the film with subsequent
fates of the persons depicted,which end with
her Colvile marriage.

Post by Mig.Rhodes
As the Hon Hugh Cholmondeley he married 11 Apr 1964, Mrs Ann Willoughby
Tinné (former wife of Michael Patrick Tinné), & only daughter of Sir
Patrick Muir Renison GCMG (1911-1965), of Freeman's Farm House,
Mayfield, co. Sussex, sometime Governor of Kenya, by whom he had one
son.
The Old Etonian succeeded his father as 5th Baron Delamere, 13 April,
1979. His homes were the vast 200,000 acre estate at Sugoni Farm,
Soysambu, Elmenteita, Kenya, and in London's Holland Park Road.

The Cheshire seat having been sold by his father in 1947.

Post by Mig.Rhodes
Lord and Lady Delamere had one son, the Hon Thomas Patrick Gilbert
Cholmondeley (born 19 January, 1968). In April 2005 at Kenya Thomas
Cholmondeley accidentally shot and killed an undercover Kenya Wildlife
Service ranger, believing him to be an armed robber, and in May 2009 at
Kenya he was convicted of manslaughter for killing a poacher on his
estate in May 2006. He died from a cardiac arrest, 16 August, 2016.
Lord Delamere is succeeded in the peerage (created in 1821), by a
grandson, Hugh Cholmondeley, who was born 9 November, 1998.

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[bryan_styble]

I never cease to be amazed at your command of the history of European
nobility, Louis; nice augmentations there.

Speaking of nobility, Sir Epstein:

Are you aware of that exquisite joke the wily staff of long-defunct Spy
magazine played on the rich-but-unfamous a few years before the turn of
the century? It was part of their delicious Celebrity Pranks series.

They planted ads in various Euro publications supposedly written by
someone of high birth with some made-up title like "5th Underbearing
Viscount of the High Order" (or some such phony hifalutin phrase),
offering to sell and transfer it for a princely sum...and then published
at least one of the respondent letters they received from wealthy saps
who took the bait.

BRYAN STYBLE/Florida