Debrett - unsuccessfully contested Staffordshire Leek Division (U) 1924. 2nd wife Mary Ashley sister of Edwina Mountbatten, earlier Mrs Cunningham-Reid then later Mrs Gardner. 2nd marriage dissolved 1955. Married 3. 1955 - Diana Colvile ex Lady Delves Broughton ex Mrs Motion nee Caldwell  

Markham - lost his virginity to Beryl Markham in the hay loft of Delamere's stables when out for Xmas from Eton .......... second wife - Ruth Mary Clarisse (Gardner) née Ashley was the sister of Edwina Mountbatten

Burke - Chm. Everitts Advertising Ltd, Dir. Proved Securities Ltd. Second wife Ruth Mary Clarissa, yr daughter of 1st Baron Mount Temple and formerly wife of firstly Capt. Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid DFC and secondly Major Ernest Laurie Gardner

Rift Valley - Member of the Rift Valley Sports Club - Jan 1929 - Elected - 7 Feb 1920 - Hon. Thos. Cholmondeley

Web - Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid was married twice. His first marriage, on 12 May 1927, was to Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of Lt.-Col. Wilfrid William Ashley, 1st and last Baron Mount Temple and Amelia Mary Maud Cassel, a multimillionaire. [sic] The couple described by the 'Cincinatti Enquirer' "England's wealthiest girl and handsomest man", had 2 children: Michael Duncan Alec Cunningham-Reid (born 1928) and Noel Robert Cunningham-Reid (born 1930). On their honeymoon, she insisted that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity", but when the couple divorced in 1940, he sued her for half of her $400,000 annual income.

Web - In 1934 Lord Delamere moved his family into Vale Royal Abbey, only to be forced out in 1939 when the Government converted Vale Royal to serve as a sanatorium for soldiers of World War II. The Cholmondeleys were restored to possession of the abbey after the War, but by 1947 the house and grounds had been sold.

Mischief - Red hair, small stature - a close friend of Gilbert Colvile. Buried at Gilbert Colvile's farm Ndabibi

Gazette 8 Feb 1980 probate

Aidan Hartley  The 5th Baron, raised in  England and more fluent in Latin than in Swahili by the time he returned to Kenya in 1958, made the family farm Soysambu in the Rift Valley his home until he died. Whereas his father had engaged in the politics of decolonization, he steered well clear of it. In 1998, when dozens of white Kenyans kowtowed to the authoritarian president Daniel Arap Moi on his lawn at State House in Nairobi, Hugh was noticeably absent. The tragedy of his life came when his son Tom was charged for shooting people dead on two separate occasions. The fifth Baron was a bibliophile and had one of the best toy train sets in the world. On his own land, he shot probably 350 buffalo during his life, which is a large number even for a veteran professional hunter. He gave the impression of being a man who did not have a job, but when he died at the age of ninety, he was running 6,000 beef cattle on Soysambu's 46,000 acres and he had set up a wildlife conservancy, various successful tourism businesses and philanthropic projects. The estate's tenants farm 3,000 acres of wheat, 1,500 acres of avocados and vegetables; there are diatomite and sand mines, a petrol station, curry house, a shopping mall and poultry farms. Shortly before his death Hugh revealed that after nearly 130 years in Kenya, the Delameres did not owe any money to the bank.