Baron Delamere also lives in Kenya. The family surname is pronounced . The heir apparent is the present holder's grandson, Hugh Cholmondeley (born 1998) Baron Delamere Baron Delamere, of Vale Royal in the County of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1821 for Thomas Cholmondeley, a former Member of Parliament for Cheshire. This Vale Royal branch of the Cholmondeley family descends from Thomas Cholmondeley (died 1653), younger brother of Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Leinster and Hugh Cholmondeley (1591–1665), ancestor of the Marquesses of Cholmondeley. The first Baron was succeeded by his son.
Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron Delamere of the attack, Lord Delamere limped for the rest of his life; he also developed a healthy respect for Somalis. It is believed that on one of these Somaliland hunting trips, Delamere coined the term 'white hunter' – the term which came to describe the professional safari hunter in colonial East Africa. Delamere employed a professional hunter named Alan Black and a native Somali hunter to lead the safari. As the story goes, to avoid confusion, the Somali was referred to as the 'black hunter', and Black was called the 'white hunter'. On an expedition in 1896, Delamere, with a