CHOLMONDELEY, GEORGE JAMES (1833-1901) was born at Peel, Isle of Man, and was related to the Marquis of Cholmondeley and Lord Delamere. He came to New Zealand in the fifties to join his brother, but returned to England and studied at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, being ordained deacon (1858) and priest (1859). He was curate of Great Cressingham and Bodney (Norwich) and Sydney and Aylburton (Gloucestershire), and returned to New Zealand in the Tasmania, to take up the curacy of St Michael and All Angels, Christchurch (1861). He became vicar of the pastoral district north of the Waimakariri; in 1862 of Heathcote and Sumner, and in 1875 of Opawa. He was made a canon in 1882 and archdeacon of Christchurch in 1890. From 1887-90 he was diocesan secretary. Cholmondeley wrote Retrospect and Prospect (1882), Church Work (1883) and Clergy Pensions (1885). He died on 11 Dec 1901.

Cycl. NZ, iii (p); Lyttelton Times and The Press, 12 Dec 1901.

Reference: Volume 1, page 95

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