Lord Delamere's heir imprisoned in Kenya

Shinjinee

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Jan 18, 2008, 9:09:32 AM1/18/08

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=507497&in_author_id=230
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeley
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/18/wchol18.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/18/ixworld.html
(photo of Tom Cholmondeley)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1592237,00.html (on the
2005 trial)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/article.html?in_article_id=406577&in_page_id=1770&in_main_section=&in_sub_section=&in_chn_id=
(fascinating article!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley%2C_3rd_Baron_Delamere
and http://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21034
for the great-grandfather who pioneered (aristocratic) white
settlement in Kenya

Apparently the heir Thomas Cholmondeley, aged 39, and father of two
sons (now divorced from wife Sally) was arrested for shooting at
poachers when one turned up shot in hospital. The family is concerned
because of political troubles and other unrest in Kenya. He has been
in prison for 21 months and is still awaiting trial.

The family owns 55,000 acres in Kenya (or 100,000 acres called
Soysambu, acquired by the 3rd Baron) and the heir 's grandfather the
4th Baron was a pivotal figure in the Happy Valley set made infamous
by the murder of the Earl of Erroll. (The Baron later married Erroll's
mistress Diana).

Cholmondeley was acquitted three years ago of shooting a game warden.

The sons are Hugh, aged 9, and Henry, aged 7. They are back in England
with their mother Sally. When did the Cholmondeleys divorce (if the
Richard Kay article is correct)? They were still married in May 2005.

According to the Daily Mail article, Thomas and Sally separated in
2007 (she was a doctor) and he then cohabited with Sally Dudmesh, a
jewelry designer.

Shinjinee

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Jan 18, 2008, 9:15:39 AM1/18/08

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For the various Ladies Delamere, see
http://www.soysambuconservancy.org/history.htm

The second wife of the third baron was Mayor of Nairobi. The fourth
baron (Tom's grandfather) married a Montagu-Douglas-Scott (one son and
two daughters), then Edwina Mountbatten's sister Mary Cunningham-Reid,
and finally Diana Lady Delves Broughton (who outlived him). The fifth
baron (Tom's father) married the daughter of a former governor of
Kenya. The heir (Tom) married a doctor.

" Thomas, fourth Baron Delamere, was married first to Phyllis Montague
Douglas Scott, with whom he had two daughters and a son, and then to
Mary Cunningham-Reid (sister of Edwina Mountbatten), before he married
the colourful Diana in 1955: he was her fourth husband! The fourth
Baron died in 1979, while Diana continued to live on Soysambu,
pursuing her passion for horse-racing in Nairobi, and deep sea fishing
in Kilifi - until she died in 1987. She is buried near Naivasha's
Crater Lake -between two of her husbands and two of Kenya's former
great landowners: Gilbert Colville and the fourth Baron Delamere. The
other members of the Delamere family are buried on Soysambu in a
peaceful Acacia glade, frequented by wild creatures."

On Jan 18, 7:09 pm, Shinjinee <ssen_ro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeleyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/18/wchol...
> (photo of Tom Cholmondeley)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1592237,00.html(on the
> 2005 trial)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/article.html?in_article_id=4065...
> (fascinating article!)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley%2C_3rd_Baron_Delamere
> andhttp://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21034

Shinjinee

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Jan 18, 2008, 9:22:26 AM1/18/08

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And this
http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200612/kenya-thomas-cholmondeley-3.html

"It was here, in the wealthy enclave dubbed Happy Valley, cocooned in
a world of black servants, shooting lessons, and ambles through the
game-rich savanna, that Thomas Patrick Gilbert Cholmondeley came of
age. Hugh Simpson, a neighbor, remembers him as "a nice boy, with a
formal English upbringing, always polite, an open chap." As a young
teenager, Cholmondeley was sent by his parents--his mother, Lady Ann
Delamere, is the daughter of one of Kenya's last colonial governors--to
Eton, the elite public school in southern England, and then the Royal
Agriculture College, in Gloucestershire. Back in Kenya, Cholmondeley
established himself as a flamboyant presence on the white Kenyan
social circuit that revolves around Rift Valley ranches and the leafy
Nairobi suburb of Karen, named for one of its first denizens, Karen
Blixen, author of Out of Africa. Six foot four, blandly handsome, with
a fringe of blond hair framing a balding pate, Cholmondeley attracted
a wide circle of people like himself: wealthy white Kenyans and
British expatriates who were drawn to the romance of East Africa. "

and how he met his wife

"Six years later, while he was hiking in the Masai Mara, a buffalo
charged from the bush and attacked him. "The horn went into the back
of his thigh and ripped through the back of his knee and came out his
ankle," Simon Cox, a longtime friend, told me. "But it didn't wreck
any arteries; he just lost a lot of flesh." Cholmondeley's injury did
bring him one life-changing benefit: Cox introduced him in the
hospital to Sally Brewerton, a British physician then working for
Doctors Without Borders in Sudan. The couple, who married in 1998 but
separated shortly before the ole Sisina killing, have two young sons,
Hugh and Henry."

Sally, daughter of Professor Derrick Brewerton, now lives in Sussex
with their two sons. The separation date is not clear (2005 according
to this article, and or 2007 according to Daily Mail).

I apologize for the hasty postings, but hope that they are some use to
those with more time today.

Shinjinee

On Jan 18, 7:09 pm, Shinjinee <ssen_ro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._G._Cholmondeleyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/18/wchol...
> (photo of Tom Cholmondeley)http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1592237,00.html(on the
> 2005 trial)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/text/article.html?in_article_id=4065...
> (fascinating article!)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley%2C_3rd_Baron_Delamere

> andhttp://www.eastandard.net/archives/cl/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21034