Background
Lionel Cholmondeley was descended from a younger brother of Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Leinster and Hugh Cholmondeley, father of Robert Cholmondeley, 1st Viscount Cholmondeley, from whom the Marquesses of Cholmondeley descend.
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Lionel Cholmondeley
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Career
He was also an historian, publishing the first English-language history of the Bonin Islands, also now known as the Ogasawara Islands. The baron"s third son was Henry Pitt Cholmondeley (15 June 1820 – 14 April 1905) who married Mary Leigh. This union produced nine children.
And young Lionel was the couple"s second son, born in Adlestrop in Gloucestershire.
Cholmondely became a Christian missionary in Japan (1887–1921), arriving in Tokyo under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to serve under Edward Bickersteth, the first Anglican Bishop of South Tokyo. In 1902, Cholmondeley succeeded Archdeacon Alexander Croft Shaw as honorary chaplain to the British Embassy in Tokyo, a position he held until his retirement and return to England in 1922.
Bonin Islands
Bishop Bickersteth was asked to send a clergyman to visit the English-speaking settlers on the Ogasawara Islands. And in response, he asked Cholmondely to sail to the islands in 1894.
This initial trip was followed by sixteen others during the remainder of Cholmondeley"s time in Japan.
Among other changes he observed during these years was the completion of undersea cable connections which ensured telegraph communication between the islands and Japan after 1906. In 1915, Cholmondeley published The History of the Bonin Islands from the Year 1827 to the Year 1876 which included detailed observations of the changes which evolved after annexation by Meiji Japan in 1875. = Chronology 1894-1891st visit.
Cholmondeley joins Anglican catechist Ishida-san, who had come by previous steamer.
This Japanese colleague returned with Cholmondeley to Tokyo. 1896-1892nd visit. Cholmondeley joins Cameron Johnson, who was staying there at the time.
The School-house built this year by settlers. 1897-1893rd visit.
