Very Rev. Hugh Cholmondeley (18 December 1772 – 25 November 1815) was an English

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priest from the Cholmondeley family. He was

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from 1806 until his death. Cholmondeley was born at Vale Royal Abbey,

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, the fourth son of Thomas Cholmondeley and Dorothy Cowper, daughter and heiress of Edmund Cowper of Overleigh Hall. He was the younger brother of the

Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere Thomas Cholmondeley, 1st Baron Delamere ( ; 9 August 1767 – 30 October 1855), of Vale Royal Abbey, Vale Royal, Cheshire, was a British landowner and politician. He was elected Member of parliament, MP for Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency) ...

. He was educated at

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. He died in 1815 at the Deanery in

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1772 births 1815 deaths

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19th-century English Anglican priests Deans of Chester Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Clergy from Cheshire Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub