Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere this time to Augusta Emily Seymour, daughter of Sir George Hamilton Seymour. The children of that marriage were: Baroness Delamere died in 1911. She had survived her husband for 24 years. Cholmondeley was elected to Parliament for Denbighshire as a Tory in 1840, a seat he held until 1841, and then represented Montgomery from 1841 to 1847. In 1855, Cholmondeley was called to the House of Lords when he succeeded his father as second Baron Delamere. In this period, Baron Delamere and his family were inextricable from the history of Cheshire and married into the Hibbert Family of Birtles Hall,Cheshire
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere was the Rhodes of Kenya and the settlers followed him both politically and spiritually.” Another contemporary and former colonist said more or less the same: “(His) ascendancy over the settlers of Kenya has been enjoyed long enough for him to expect all men – and women – to do his bidding, and do it promptly. He is their Moses. For 25 years he has been their guide.” Beryl Markham, the aviator and author, was close with Delamere and his wife, who served for a few years as Markham's surrogate mother. She summed Delamere up thus: "Delamere had two great loves