David George Philip Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley, KCVO (pr. "Chumley") (born 27 June 1960), an English nobleman and the current Lord Great Chamberlain of England, technically as a partial holder of that office. Queen Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

Personal

Cholmondeley received his secondary education at Eton College, then attended the Sorbonne. In the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, he was appointed a KCVO for his 17 years' service as Lord Great Chamberlain. Lord Cholmondeley is unmarried. Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (privately funded and independent) for boys, founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. It is located in Eton, near Windsor in England, north of Windsor Castle, and... The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: ) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganised as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Queen Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable. ...

Career

Position at court and the House of Lords

Cholmondeley was a Page of Honour to Her Majesty The Queen at the age of 14. He began acting as the hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain to Her Majesty in 1990. While a page is a comparatively low-ranking servant, a Page of Honour is a chilvalric and ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

He is at the present time the only marquess in the House of Lords, following the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, this may change should another marquess be elected as one of the remaining 90 hereditary peers at a subsequent by-election; should a marquess be appointed a life peer, for instance Michael Ancram; or should the Marquess of Salisbury decide to take up his seat in the House of Lords again. This article is about a title of nobility. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... The House of Lords Act 1999, an Act of Parliament passed by the British Parliament, was a major constitutional enactment as it reformed greatly one of the chambers of Parliament, the House of Lords (see Lords Reform). ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... Michael Andrew Foster Jude Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian, PC QC, MP, (born 7 July 1945), known as Michael Ancram, is a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. ... The Most Honourable Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, PC (born September 30, 1946), is a Conservative politician and a former Leader and Shadow Leader of the House of Lords. ...

Film work

Cholmondeley directed the film adaptation of Truman Capote's novel Other Voices, Other Rooms, using the pseudonym David Rocksavage, derived from his former courtesy title Earl of Rocksavage, which he used before his accession to the marquessate in 1990. He had appeared in a bit part in a 1987 French film, 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle, directed by Eric Rohmer. Truman Capote (pronounced ) (30 September 1924 – 25 August 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffanys (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a non-fiction novel. ... Other Voices, Other Rooms is a 1948 novel by Truman Capote. ... A pseudonym (Greek: , pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons legal name. ... Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle is a 1987 French film directed by Éric Rohmer, lasting 102 minutes and starring Joëlle Miquel, Jessica Forde, Philippe Laudenbach Four short films, four enlightening adventures in the countryside and in Paris with Reinette, the country mouse and Mirabelle, the town mouse. ... Eric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) is a French film director. ...

In 2007 he directed the film "The Wreck" starring Jean Simmons and James Wilby, which was filmed in Norfolk. The producer was Nick O'Hagan and the executive producer was Ivan Mactaggart. It will be completed in 2007 and is scheduled for release in 2008. Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face Jean Merilyn Simmons (born January 31, 1929 in Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom) is a British actress. ... James Wilby is a British actor for film, TV and stage, born in Rangoon, Burma on 20 February 1958. ...

Lands and estates

The wealth of the Cholmondeley family was greatly enhanced by the marriage of the Marquess's grandmother the heiress Sibyl Sassoon into the family.

Cholmondeley maintains two great family estates, Houghton Hall and Cholmondeley Castle. The facade of Houghton Hall from Colen Campbells Vitruvius Britannicus. ... Cholmondeley Castle Cholmondeley Castle (pronounced Chumly) is a mansion house in the civil parish of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ536514). ...

He ranked 944th in The Sunday Times Rich List 2006 with an estimated wealth of £60m. Since 1989 the British national Sunday newspaper The Sunday Times (sister paper to The Times) has published an annual supplement to the newspaper called the Sunday Times Rich List. ...

Sources

• Other Voices, Other Rooms