Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron

Delamere, Hugh Cholmondeley, 3rd Baron

▪ British colonist
born April 28, 1870, Vale Royal, Cheshire, England
died November 13, 1931, Loresho, Kenya

      a leader of European colonists in British East Africa Protectorate (now Kenya). Controversial and outspoken, Delamere was the central figure of the white community in Kenya. He believed that civilization could be brought to Africa only by European settlement and was the constant champion of white supremacy.

      Having come to Kenya originally as a hunter, Delamere settled there in 1903. He was granted 100,000 acres by the colonial commissioner and immediately began experimenting with livestock and crops to discover the most suitable use of the land. Elected (1903) the first president of the Farmers' and Planters' Association (which became the Colonists' Association in 1904), he was a member of the first legislative council (1907). He was elected a member of Parliament for the Rift Valley in 1920, a seat he held until his death. From 1920, when the Colonial Office declared that the interests of native Africans should be supreme in Kenya, Delamere was in continuous opposition to the British government. In 1925 he organized, at his own expense, a conference of delegates from Kenya, Tanganyika, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland to consider how to solidify white control in Africa. In 1923 and 1930 he headed delegations to London in support of the settlers' goals.

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