Reginald Cholmondeley JP DL (20 April 1826 – 10 February 1896) of Condover, Shropshire, was an English landowner, artist and collector.

[7] In the parish church at Condover there is a marble monument to Thomas Cholmondeley by George Frederic Watts (1817–1904), featuring a kneeling bearded figure of the deceased, wearing boots, a cloak and a soldier's tunic, with his hands clasping a sword, looking out across the choir stalls in front of him, into the chancel.

37 Palace Gate, this large red-brick house at the corner with Canning Place was built in about 1869–70 for Reginald Cholmondeley, to whom Cubitts granted a ninety-nine-year lease from September 1870, at £100 per annum.

The architect was Frederick Pepys Cockerell, who also worked for Cholmondeley on the restoration of his country seat, Condover Hall.

[12] Other building projects he was responsible for as squire of Condover included, at the parish church the rebuilding of the chancel and mortuary chapel in which his family monuments are contained, and in 1878 the internal restoration of the nave in 1878 at a cost to himself of around £5,000.

[15][16] Cholmondeley was "a man of powerful personality and fine taste", an accomplished artist and talented amateur sculptor as well as an enthusiastic collector of books, manuscripts, paintings and curiosities.

[4][17] He had exhibited at the Royal Academy and counted many of London's artists such as G. F. Watts and John Everett Millais (1829–1896) as personal friends.

When he wrote to Twain to apologise for the mistake the humourist graciously replied:[22]"Being dead I might be excused from writing letters, but I am not that kind of a corpse.

"Cholmondeley owned a number of rare books as well as valuable paintings, among them Elizabethan, Old Masters and many more; armour and Birds of Paradise that he purchased from the ornithologist, John Gould.

[4] Over the years he had spent on Condover Hall, its contents and gardens, what was needed for the estate, which became "so neglected and encumbered" that he was planning to sell it when he died in 1896,[56] having for some time rented it to a nephew.