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Moyra married Lt-Colonel Heyworth Reginald Francis-210200 son of Heyworth Progenitor-210202 and HNotknown Miss-210203 in 1923. Reginald was born in 1896.
GEC, Peerage, Roxburghe, p. 229. website http://www.geocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm
George married Crewe-Milnes Mary Evelyn Hungerford-3414 daughter of Baron Houghton Crewe-Milnes Robert Offley-31170 and wife2 Primrose Margaret-31169 on 24 Oct 1935.
GEC, Peerage, Roxburghe, p. 229. website http://www.geocities.com/layedwyer/shore.htm
thepeerage.com. See Peregrine Churchill's book on Jennie, table. GEC, Peerage, Marlborough, p. 504.
John married Cadogan Alexandra Mary Hilda-127757 daughter of Visc Chelsea Cadogan Henry Arthur-104561 and Sturt Mildred Cecilia Harriet-108988 on 17 Feb 1920. Alexandra died in 1961.
thepeerage.com. She is dr4 in GEC, Peerage, Marlborough, p. 504.
John and Alexandra had the following children:
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Lord Spencer-Churchill Charles George William Colin-202054.
Charles married Whyndham Elizabeth Jane-202051 daughter of Capt OBE Whyndham Mark Hugh-202049 and Winn Anne-202050 in 1970. Elizabeth was born in 1948.
Hugh married Renison Anne-298953 daughter of Renison Progenitor-298957 and RNotknown Miss-298960.
thepeerage.com.
Hugh and Anne had the following children:
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Of Kenya, kills two black poachers Cholmondeley Thomas Patrick Gilbert-298954 was born in 1968. He was christened in 2005 in Active.
Article, SMH 12-5-2006. In 2005-2006 or so, he is on charges of having killed two local Black men, probably accusing them of having been poachers. Follows from BBC headlines copied 7-8 May 2009. THOMAS CHOLMONDELEY
Educated at exclusive British school, Eton
Great-grandson of third Baron Delamere, one of Kenya's first white settlers
In line to become 6th Baron Delamere
Sole heir to family's massive Rift Valley estate
Divorced father of two sons
Aristocrat guilty of manslaughter
A white Kenyan aristocrat has been cleared of murder but found guilty of the manslaughter of a black poacher on his family's estate in 2006.
A judge ruled Thomas Cholmondeley did not show "malice aforethought" in the shooting of Robert Njoya in May 2006.
The case, involving the descendant of one of Kenya's first British settlers, has attracted huge media attention.
In 2005 Cholmondeley admitted shooting a Maasai ranger, but the case was dropped owing to insufficient evidence.
That decision provoked outrage and mass protests among the Maasai community.
'Dumbstruck'
The courtroom in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was packed with lawyers, reporters, cameramen, and family and friends of Thomas Cholmondeley, the BBC's Adam Mynott in court said. There were gasps of surprise as High Court Justice Muga Apondi gave his ruling after reading out a 320-page verdict on the case, although the defendant himself remained impassive.
"I find as a fact that it was the accused who had shot the deceased resulting in his death," the judge said.
"In view of the above analysis I hereby find which I do, that the accused did not have any malice aforethought to kill the deceased."
The Eton-educated 40-year-old, who has spent the last three years in jail, is due to be sentenced next week. He faces a maximum term of life imprisonment.
"I'm amazed - dumbstruck actually," said Cholmondeley's defence lawyer. "We will appeal. There is no doubt about that."
Surprise outcome
The incident took place in a remote corner of Cholmondeley's sprawling family farm in the Rift Valley region, acquired by his great-grandfather, the third Baron Delamere.
Cholmondeley told police at the time that Mr Njoya was with three companions and a pack of dogs, and he suspected them of hunting a gazelle.
He said he had shot at the dogs, killing two of them. Mr Njoya was hit by a bullet and died on the way to hospital.
Cholmondeley's defence had argued that the fatal shot may have been fired from a weapon carried by his friend, but this was rejected as an "afterthought" by the judge.
The judge's verdict is contrary to the non-binding not guilty verdict found by a panel of lay assessors - who do a similar job to juries in Kenya - in March.
The outcome will surprise some who followed the case closely, our correspondent says.
But it will please those Kenyans who believe Thomas Cholmondeley should have been prosecuted over the shooting of Maasai ranger Samson Ole Sisina in 2005.
Cholmondeley, a divorced father of two, had admitted the earlier shooting, but said he acted in self-defence mistaking the warden for an armed robber.
Much of Kenya's most fertile land was given to white settlers during the colonial era and this remains the case 46 years after independence - a fact resented by many Kenyans.
