Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere 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 – 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
Louise Delamere Louise Delamere Louise Alexandra Delamere (born 17 June 1969) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Lia in the Channel 4 comedy drama "No Angels" and Colette Sheward in the BBC medical drama "Holby City". Delamere appeared in "Agatha Christie's Poirot", in the episode "Evil Under the Sun", where she played Arlena Stuart-Marshall, an actress who is murdered on a beach. She was featured in the "Cadfael" episode "The Holy Thief" and appeared in the BBC crime show "Waking the Dead" as Elaine Ashcroft, again playing a murder victim in the fourth season finale "Thin Air". She