Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley

Cholmondeley was born in 1919 in St George Hanover Square, London, a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Like his great-great-grandfather, his great-granduncle, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, his father and his son, Cholmondeley was educated at Eton.

Cholmondeley served in the British army, initially in the Grenadier Guards and later in the 1st Royal Dragoons.

[10] The family seats are Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, which is surrounded by a 7,500-acre (30 km2) estate near Malpas, Cheshire.

[11] One moiety part of the ancient office of Lord Great Chamberlain is a Cholmondeley inheritance.

Lord Cholmondeley's coat of arms
Houghton Hall in Norfolk, ancestral home of the Marquess of Cholmondeley since the establishment of the title in 1815, has now opened some of its rooms to the public.