Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere their seat at Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire which had been in the family since 1615. Cholmondeley served as High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1792 and then in 1796 was elected to the House of Commons for his father's old seat of Cheshire, which he retained until 1812. In 1821 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Delamere of Vale Royal in the County of Chester. The current baron, the 5th Baron Delamere, paints a picture of his early-19th century ancestor with deft, harsh strokes: On 17 December 1810, Cholmondeley married Henrietta Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, daughter of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th
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