George Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Military Cross Doctor of Laws, styled Earl of Rocksavage from 1923 until 1968, was a British peer and Lord Great Chamberlain of England between 1968 and 1990.
Background
Cholmondeley was born in 1919 in Street George Hanover Square, London, a descendant of Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. He was the son of George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley and Sybil Sassoon, of the Sassoon and Rothschild family. His mother was Jewish (from a family from Iraq, India, Germany, and France).
Education
Like his great-great-grandfather, his great-granduncle, his great-grandfather, his grandfather, his father and his son, Cholmondeley was educated at Eton. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.
Career
Cholmondeley served in the British army, initially in the Grenadier Guards and later in the 1st Royal Dragoons. During the Second World War, he saw action in the Middle East, in Italy, in France and in Germany. Cholmondeley succeeded to his father"s land, estates and title in 1968.
He died at Cholmondeley Castle in 1990.
Cholmondeley married Lavinia Margaret Leslie (born 9 September 1921, died 7 November 2015), daughter of Colonel John Leslie, on 14 June 1947. The family seats are Houghton Hall, Norfolk, and Cholmondeley Castle, which is surrounded by a 7,500 acres (30 km2) estate near Malpas, Cheshire.
One moiety part of the ancient office of Lord Great Chamberlain is a Cholmondeley inheritance. This hereditary honour came into the Cholmondeley family through the marriage of the first Marquess of Cholmondeley to Lady Georgiana Charlotte Bertie, daughter of Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.
The second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh holders of the marquessate have all held this office.