Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet and had a great-uncle names Reginal Herber who was a hymn-writing bishop who gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet.
Mary Cholmondeley (usually pronounced /tmli/, 8 June 1859  15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her bestselling novel, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the third of eight children of Rev Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (18271910) and his wife Emily Beaumont (18311893). Her great-uncle was the hymn-writing bishop Reginald Heber and her niece the writer Stella Benson. Reginald Heber (21 April 1783  3 April 1826) was an English bishop, man of letters and hymn-writer. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet. 
