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About Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere
Ruth Mary Clarisse Cholmondeley, Baroness Delamere, was a British heiress and socialite. A granddaughter of German-Jewish banker Sir Ernest Cassel, she inherited an estate including a large manor house in Six Mile Bottom and half of her grandfather's fortune. The Cincinnati Enquirer referred to her as "England's wealthiest girl" when reporting on her first marriage to Captain Alec Cunningham-Reid. She was married three times, becoming a peeress upon her third marriage to Thomas Cholmondeley, 4th Baron Delamere. Lady Delamere was the younger sister of Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
Everything about Mary Cholmondeley, Lady Delamere →- Born
- 1906, July 22, 1906
- Died
- 1986, October 10, 1986