Delamere left Eton at the age of sixteen with the intention of entering the British Army,[REF] but gave up his military pursuits after acceding to the title aged seventeen on the death of his father on 1 August 1887 [REF].
The young baron inherited a sizeable estate in the North of England, including land that had been in the Cholmondeley family since 1615[REF] - 7000acre and the ancestral seat at Vale Royal in the county of Cheshire [REF].