TEMPEST, Henry Roger (1924-2017)

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Richard R

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May 11, 2017, 6:08:29 AM5/11/17
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The Times of 11 May 2017 has a full page obit for Henry Tempest, who died of Kidney failure on 6 May 2017, aged 93 years.

He was 2nd son of Col Roger Stephen TEMPEST CMG DSO (1876-1948), sometime head of the gentry family of that name of Broughton Hall, and Valerie Arthur GLOVER (1889-1978). He succ as head and to the estate on the death of his elder brother, Stephen Tempest, in 1970. He m 1957 Janet Evelyn Mary (b 1930 reg Q2 Hertford) d of Harold LONGTON and Evelyn R WEST, and had 2 sons and 3  daus. His elder son, Roger Henry (b 1963) succeeds him as family head, and has run the estate since 1988. Roger Tempest m 1991 (reg Q1 North Yorkshire) Sara Catherine (Kitty) (b 1963 reg Q3 Lancashire) d of Richard Coulthurst NORTH (1932-76) and his former wife Susan Hare (later Lady Kimber, wife of Sir Timothy Kimber 4th Bt (d 2012)) d of J K BROOKS of Hillcrest, Silverdale, Lancashire. 

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May 12, 2017, 5:32:06 AM5/12/17
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How many more untitled landed families own a grade I listed stately home like the Tempests of Broughton Hall?

colinp

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May 31, 2017, 10:53:41 AM5/31/17
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