Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere KCMG (28 April 1870 – 13 November 1931), styled The Honourable from birth until 1887, was a British peer. He was one of the first and most influential British settlers in Kenya.
Lord Delamere, the son of The 2nd Baron Delamere and his wife, Augusta Emily Seymour, moved to Kenya in 1901 and acquired vast land holdings from the British Crown. Over the years, he became the unofficial 'leader' of the colony's European community. He was as famous for his tireless labours to establish a working agricultural economy in East Africa as he was for childish antics among his European friends when he was at his leisure.
Delamere left Eton at the age of sixteen with the intention of entering the British Army, but gave up his military pursuits after acceding to the title aged seventeen on the death of his father on 1 August 1887. Baron Delamere was an indirect descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. He entered the 3rd battalion, Cheshire Regiment with a commission in the service as a Lieutenant. He continued to play a role in the militia Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry with the rank of captain.
The young baron inherited a sizeable estate in the North of England, including land that had been in the Cholmondeley family since 1615 – 7,000 acres (28 km2) and the ancestral seat at Vale Royal in the county of Cheshire.
The young Lord Delamere made his first trip to Africa in 1891 to hunt lion in British Somaliland, and returned yearly to resume the hunt. In 1894 he was severely mauled by an attacking lion, and was only saved when his Somali gunbearer, Abdullah Ashur, leaped on the lion, giving Delamere time to retrieve his rifle. As a result of the attack, Lord Delamere limped for the rest of his life; he also developed a healthy respect for Somalis.
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