Hugh Cholmondeley’s life celebrated at memorial service

A sizeable crowd yesterday celebrated and reflected on the life of veteran broadcaster and international civil servant Hugh Cholmondeley who lost his battle to cancer on August 10.

While many fought back tears at the memorial service held at the St George’s Cathedral, there were periodic eruptions of laughter as some of his closest friends, some of whom saw him in his last days, recollected their fondest memories of him.

Reading the eulogy, Senior Counsel Miles Fitzpatrick noted that Cholmondeley was the creator of modern broadcasting in Guyana as the general manager of the