Popularly known (from 1931) as Tom Delamere, he lived on and leased the vast estate known as Soysambu Ranch in Kenya.

Cholmondeley was a descendant of the family of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

In this period, the Cholmondeley family continued to own ancestral land and estates in Cheshire in the North of England.

However, Lord Delamere lived, worked and invested most of his life in building modern Kenya.

[2] Cholmondeley married on 14 June 1924, Phyllis Anne Scott, daughter of Lord George William Montagu Douglas Scott (younger son of The 6th Duke of Buccleuch) and Lady Elizabeth Emily Manners (daughter of The 7th Duke of Rutland).