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Tempest Baronets of Stella and Stanley, Co Durham
A branch of the Tempest family of HolmsideHolmside
Holmside is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated to the north-west of Sacriston.The village has a 5.5 MW wind farm, Holmside Hall Wind Farm, which became operational in May 2004 and consists of two high wind turbines.- References :...
, Co. Durham descended from Nicolas Tempest (1486–1539), described as of Stanley Byers and Stanley Parke, the fourth son of Robert Tempest and Anne Lambton of Holmside.
The Stella branch of the family combined agricultural and mercantile interests with large scale involvement in the coal trade via Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the late 16th and 17th centuries with many members being noted recusants, adherents to the old Catholic faith, post reformation
Thomas Tempest (1530–1578) was the son of the above married Elizabeth Place of Halnaby, Yorkshire and was of Stanley. His eldest son:
Sir Nicolas Tempest, 1st Baronet (1553–1625). He was created a Baronet 23 December 1622 by James I, then being described as of Stella Hall, Blaydon
Blaydon
Blaydon-on-Tyne is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The former urban district, however, extends much further, its fourteen and a half square miles constituting the largest administrative district, after Newcastle, on Tyneside...
, Co.Durham a former monastic property granted to the family by Elizabeth I c1600. Surtees suggests that the "Tempests resided here in catholic splendour and loyalty during the reign of four Stuart kings". indicating a steadfast adherence to the pre reformed Church and the preservation of the Catholic faith at Stella during the whole of the seventeenth century.
Bishop Toby Matthew of Durham described Tempest as "as much a church papist as any in England" though this may have been due to the influence of his wife Isabel Lambton (1552–1623). Arrested and committed to Durham gaol as a recusant in 1599 the Bishop's attempts at prosecution were thwarted by the intervention of Lord Eure, her uncle, and a member of the Council of the North prompting him to write that "nothing in Newcastle can can prevail against him (Tempest), he being in affinity and consanguinity with both factions there" ."He is too seldom at Stella for the Sheriff of Durham to apprehend the priest he harbours there" and Matthew confesses that as a diosescon "I cannot reach to the heights to effectively enquire into persons of that quality". The hostility of the bishops persisted until Tempest's death in 1625 preventing him taking post as Sheriff of Newcastle and as a JP on the Durham bench.
Apprenticed to Cuthbert Musgrave, Boothman, of Newcastle 1560
Sir Thomas Tempest, 2nd Baronet (c1581-1641). He was the eldest son of the above married Troth Tempest (1596-?) daughter of Sir Richard Tempest Kt. of Bracewell, Yorkshire, a distant relative. He appears to have convinced Bishop Neile of Durham of his Protestantism and appeared as JP and Master of the Muster for the Chester-le Street ward of Durham. He and his brother Henry were confirmed no recusants by the ecclesiastical commissioners in 1630 when compounding on behalf of Dionysia Bulmer upon her conviction.
Sir Richard Tempest, 3rd Baronet (1619–1662). He was the eldest son of the above was a leading Royalist during the Civil War. A lawyer he was admitted to Lincolns Inn 1636. As Colonel of a Regiment of Horse under Marmaduke Langdale
Marmaduke Langdale
Sir Marmaduke Langdale was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.He married Lenox , daughter of Sir John Rodes of Barlborough, Derbyshire, and his third wife Catherine, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Holderness on 12 September 1626, at St Michael-le-Belfry in York...
in 1648, he was captured by Robert Lilburne
Robert Lilburne
thumb|right|Robert LilburneColonel Robert Lilburne was the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller, but unlike his brother who severed his relationship with Oliver Cromwell, Robert Lilburne remained in the army...
in the action at Cartington Castle
Cartington Castle
Cartington Castle is a ruinous, partly restored medieval English castle in the village of Cartington, north-west of Rothbury in the county of Northumberland, England looking down on the River Coquet. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.Its first recorded owner was...
, Northumberland but contrived to escape after breakfast. He spent some time in exile in France and the Stella estate suffered sequestration. This was discharged in 1652 and the property conveyed to his unmarried uncle Henry. He married in 1641 Sarah Campbell daughter of the Lord Mayor of London.
Sir Thomas Tempest, 4th Baronet (1642–1691). He was the eldest son of the above. Educated at the English College, Douai
English College, Douai
The English College, Douai was a Catholic seminary associated with the University of Douai . It was established in about 1561, and was suppressed in 1793...
. He married twice, firstly to Elizabeth Braithwaite (1637–1669) of Warcop, Cumbria and secondly in 1677 to Alice (1641–1685) sister on co-heir of Sir Francis Hodgson of Winlaton. Following his second marriage he openly adopted the Catholic faith being charged with absenting himself from the parish church. A Catholic priest Fr. John Bennet OSB was established at Stella from 1688. Sir Thomas established a library of religious books to be found in the Harlien collection of the British Library and at Ushaw College.
Sir Francis Tempest, 5th Baronet (1678–1698). He was the only son of the above. Educated at Jesuit College of St. Louis le Grand Paris. Died young at Montpellier and was succeeded by his father's cousin.
Sir Nicolas Tempest, 6th Baronet (1664–1742). He inherited the title but not the estates of Stella which passed to Jane Tempest, sister of the above and wife of William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington
William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington
Baron William Widdrington succeeded to the title 4th Baron Widdrington of Blankney on the death of his father in 1695....
attainted for his part in the 1715 Jacobite rising
Jacobite rising
The Jacobite Risings were a series of uprisings, rebellions, and wars in Great Britain and Ireland occurring between 1688 and 1746. The uprisings were aimed at returning James VII of Scotland and II of England, and later his descendants of the House of Stuart, to the throne after he was deposed by...
. He married Ann Price and is buried at Tanfield, Durham.
Arms Argent a bend engrailed between six martlets Sable. Crest on a wreath a martlet Sable
Tempest of Old Durham and Wynyard
A branch of the Tempest family of Stella Hall, BlaydonBlaydon
Blaydon-on-Tyne is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The former urban district, however, extends much further, its fourteen and a half square miles constituting the largest administrative district, after Newcastle, on Tyneside...
, Co. Durham descended from Rowland Tempest, the third son of Thomas Tempest and Elizabeth daughter of Rowland Place of Halnaby, Yorkshire and brother to Sir Nicolas Tempest(1553–1625), 1st Baronet of Stella. Successive members engaged political careers representing the county or City of Durham from 1675 until 1813.
Rowland Tempestwas a merchant and Hostman (or fitter) of Newcastle, involved in the shipment of coal. The records of the Hostman's Company list the volume of trade in 1602 as 9,085 tons in 85 keels, of which Rowland ships 250 in 1.5.M. He married Barbara daughter of Thomas Calverley of Littlebourne, Durham the sister of Sir John Calverley. Kt.
Sir Thomas Tempest Kt. (c 1594 - liv 1652) eldest son of the above was a Durham lawyer. Educated Queens College, matric.23 November 1610 aged 16. Barrister at Law, Lincoln's Inn
Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. Although Lincoln's Inn is able to trace its official records beyond...
1620,a bencher 1636.He acted as Attorney General of the Bishopric of Durham (c.1634-1640) and in October,1640 as Attorney-General for Ireland
Attorney-General for Ireland
The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then United Kingdom government office. The holder was senior to the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters...
in succession to Sir Richard Osbaldeston when he described is as a Recorder, of Lincoln's Inn. He was knighted at Dublin in December,the same year. In County Durham he purchased the manors of The Isle, south west of Bradbury
Bradbury, County Durham
Bradbury is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated between Sedgefield and Newton Aycliffe, close to the A1 and A689, and is approximately from Middlesbrough. Bradbury is a small agricultural village. The moorland around it is of glacial origin....
(1635) and Swainston north of Wynyard and Embleton
Embleton, County Durham
Embleton is a hamlet, township and former chapelry, in County Durham, in England, as well as the site of a medieval village and manor. It is situated east of Sedgefield and west of Hartlepool. The township was historically named "Elmdene", supposedly derived from the site's proximity to a...
from his Calverley and Bulmer relatives (1628). He married firstly in 1620 his distant relative, Eleanor Tempest,
It is likely that Eleanor was a Catholic.Her father had presented scholarships to the College of Douai training centre for seminary priests who risked their lives on English missions.Two Robert Tempest's,her uncle and cousin may have been such in 1625 and 1640 whilst her aunt Anne was fined as a recusant in 1577 and 1620.
daughter of William Tempest and Eizabeth More of Sommerton, Oxfordshire
One outlying farm Troy Farm possessing a well preserved turf maze dates from the 16th century and was probably built on the site of the manor house known as Sommerton occupied in the 16th century by William Tempest (Victoria County History of Oxford). and secondly in 1633 Elizabeth widow of Robert Crewes of Soper Lane, St. Pancras. His brother Francis is listed as Barrister at Law, Gray's Inn
Gray's Inn
The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court in London. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales, an individual must belong to one of these Inns...
and was Recorder of Durham 1642.
John Tempest (1623-1697) only son of the above. Born in Oxford, educated at The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
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matriculated 17 November 1637 aged 14. Styled of The Isle and, in right of his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Heath, of Old Durham
Old Durham
Old Durham is a hamlet in County Durham, in England. It is situated approximately 1 mile east of central Durham and south of Gilesgate.The most northerly remains of a Romanised farmstead in the Roman Empire were excavated at Old Durham during the 1940s....
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A leading Royalist, during the Civil War he commanded a Regiment of Foot in the Marquess of Newcastle's army. During 1644 his regiment fought at Northallerton, where its Lt. Colonel Gerard Salvin was killed and in July at Marston Moor where the royalist cause in the north was irretrievably lost. Retreating into Lancashire with the remnants of Prince Rupert's forces he joined the small band of volunteers defending Lathom
Lathom
Lathom is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, about 5 km northeast of Ormskirk. It is in the district of West Lancashire, and with the parish of Newburgh forms part of Newburgh ward...
House, home of the Earl of Derby. Despite fierce resistance this was forced to capitulate December 1645 with the defenders allowed to march to the nearest friendly forces. John Tempest occurs as Governor and defender of Skipton Castle
Skipton Castle
Skipton Castle is situated within the town of Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. The castle has been preserved for over 900 years, built in 1090 by Robert de Romille, a Norman baron.- History :...
which surrendered to Parliament 21 December 1645.
This was the second siege. The house was eventually captured by the Roundhead General Egerton on December 6, 1645
Labelled an "obstinate delinquent" by the Parliamentary Commissioners alongside his father and father in law who compounded for their estates in 1647.He himself did so in 1649.
With his cousin Sir Richard Tempest Bt.of Stella he took part in the second Civil War and is listed among the prisoners following the action at Cartington Castle
Cartington Castle
Cartington Castle is a ruinous, partly restored medieval English castle in the village of Cartington, north-west of Rothbury in the county of Northumberland, England looking down on the River Coquet. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building.Its first recorded owner was...
,Northumberland in 1648.
He or his cousin Sir Richard may be the Colonel Tempest surprised and captured with a party of Royalist horse at Whalley near Clitheroe prior to the Battle of Preston later that year
During the Commonwealth, in 1656 he is mentioned by Marmaduke Langdale
Marmaduke Langdale
Sir Marmaduke Langdale was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.He married Lenox , daughter of Sir John Rodes of Barlborough, Derbyshire, and his third wife Catherine, daughter of Marmaduke Constable of Holderness on 12 September 1626, at St Michael-le-Belfry in York...
as among those Cavaliers of the Bishopric whom he deems "eminently reliable" and conversely by Cromwell's agents as the "leader of a cabal whose members include Col.Ralph Millot and William Davison".
After the restoration of Charles II he was nominated a Knight of the Royal Oak in 1661 the order being "set aside for fear of inciting the heats and jealousies of the late times" .In October 1662 he was appointed by John Cosin
John Cosin
John Cosin was an English churchman.-Life:He was born at Norwich, and was educated at Norwich grammar school and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was scholar and afterwards fellow. On taking orders he was appointed secretary to Bishop Overall of Lichfield, and then domestic chaplain to...
, Bishop of Durham as a Deputy Lord Lieutenant and Receiver for County Durham, he seems already to have been Colonel of the Train Bands as on 17th, September 1662 he is ordered by the Bishop to "search houses and arrest George Lilburne and Thomas Brown of Sunderland".The former was Mayor of Sunderland and brother of the Parliamentarian, General Robert Lilburne
Robert Lilburne
thumb|right|Robert LilburneColonel Robert Lilburne was the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller, but unlike his brother who severed his relationship with Oliver Cromwell, Robert Lilburne remained in the army...
of Thickley the most powerful man in Durham in the 1650s.
From l666 along with other Durham freeholders he petitioned for representation for the county, as distinct from the City,of Durham in Parliament a privilege steadfastly opposed by the Bishop.A successful Bill was eventually brought and on 21 June 1675 after a three day election, John Tempest was declared elected as the first Member of Parliament for the County.An anonymous libel on the Earl of Danby
Earl of Danby
Earl of Danby was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1626 in favour of the soldier Henry Danvers, 1st Baron Danvers. He had already been created Baron Danvers, of Dauntsey in the County of Wiltshire, in 1603, also in the Peerage of England. The...
's organisation published in 1677 observes that "John Tempest a papist,a pensioner and a court dinner man hath secured a customers place at Hull for his son".
January 20, 1675 Grant for John Tempest and Rowland Tempest sons of Colonel John Tempest to be Customers of Hull port in reversion after Sir Matthew Appleyard and Thomas Lyons.May 29, 1688 Royal Warrant to the Attorney General constituting Rowland Tempest and John Tempest to customers of Hull in place of Matthew Appleyard.They claim the office by a grant from Charles II dated May1st 1676 (Calender of State Papers 1676).
He was returned again in the election of 1678. On January 17, 1678 he is appointed as Newcastle Commissioner for sea coals and on March 21 the same year receives a grant of searcher of the port.
In 1680 he and his son William Tempest sold The Isle to William Bigg.In 1680 and 1683 he is listed as a witness as to the Roundhead sympathies of John Blakiston
John Blakiston
John Blakiston , was a member of the English parliament, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England, a prominent mercer and coal merchant, puritan and anti-Episcopalian.-Biography:...
of Newcastle and a JP, son of the regicide John Blakiston.Ref.Calender of State Papers,May 30, 1680.
In 1683 he and William Tempest purchased the manor of Little Hutton near Hutton Magna (Gilling West Wapentake)Yorkshire from the Edens. In July 1688 he is reappointed as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Durham with his son William.
His was buried at Forcett, North Yorkshire 26th,July 1697, his daughter Margaret having married Richard Shuttleworth of Forcett
Forcett
Forcett is a village in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, near the border with County Durham. It lies on the B6274 road about 8 miles south of Staindrop...
and Gawthorpe Hall
Gawthorpe Hall
Gawthorpe Hall, a Lancashire County Council property managed by the National Trust is an Elizabethan house near the town of Padiham, in the borough of Burnley, Lancashire, England...
(Lancashire)
William Tempest (31 January 1653 - 16 March 1700) the second son of John Tempest of The Isle and Old Durham and Elizabeth daughter and sole heiress of John Heath, he represented the City of Durham as Member of Parliament in 1678, 1680 and 1689.[2] He was a defeated candidate in the elections of 1675,Tempest polled more votes than the successful candidate John Parkhurst but upon scrutiny it was discovered that 12 of Mr.Tempest's voters were not freemen and that 3 had voted twice (R.Surtees, History of Durham,Vol I,Appendix cl) 1679 and 1688.[3]. Styled Colonel Tempest in 1694, an adherent to the Country Interest. He may have been implicated in the conspiracy of John Fenwick against William III being recorded as under house arrest at his home of Old Durham 19 March 1695.[4] In 1677 he married Elizabeth Sudbury, niece of the Dean of Durham and sister of Sir John Sudbury Bt. of Eldon Co.Durham.
John Tempest (1679-1737) eldest son of the above was elected as the Member of Parliament for the County of Durham in 1705.[5] .He married Jane daughter and heiress of Richard Wharton of Durham bringing to the family extensive properties in the Houghton-le-Spring and Penshaw areas and significantly expanding the family's coal mining interests through the lease of the collieries at Rainton from the Dean and Chapter.
John Tempest (23rd,April 1710-17th,May 1776)
John Tempest, Sr.
John Tempest of Sherburn and Wynyard, County Durham was a landowner and Member of Parliament.Tempest was a member of the Old Durham branch of the Tempest family, the son of John Tempest and Jane Wharton...
of Sherburn and Wynyard
Wynyard Park, County Durham
Wynyard Park, sometimes known as Wynyard Hall is a large country house in County Durham, England. The house used to be the family seat of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry, an Anglo-Irish aristocratic dynasty, but it was sold in the 1980s.-The house:Designed by Philip Wyatt...
, County Durham was a landowner and Member of Parliament, the eldest son of John Tempest (1679–1737) and Jane Wharton (1683–1736). His family's extensive landed interests including the manors of Wynyard (purchased in 1742 for £8,000), The Isle, Swainston, Kelloe, Dalton-le-Dale, Old Durham, Sherburn, Brancepeth Castle
Brancepeth Castle
Brancepeth Castle is a castle in the village of Brancepeth in County Durham, England, some 5 miles south-west of the city of Durham . It is a Grade I listed building.-History:...
, Stainton, Thorpe Thewles, Carlton, Redmarshall, Broomhall, Offerton. South Biddick, Rainton and Sunderland, helped make them among the largest shippers of coal via Sunderland.In 1758, from the Rainton coalfield, 20866 chaldrons of coal were shipped abroad (a chaldron weighed two tons 13 hundredweight). He represented the City of Durham in the Parliaments of 1741 (elected 3/4/1742), when he is listed among those voting against Hanoverian troops being taken into British pay, 1747, 1754 and 1761.
He married (at Kirk Merrington 9/5/1738),Frances Shuttleworth (?-1771)
John Tempest (1739-12 August 1794)
John Tempest, Jr.
John Tempest was a County Durham landowner, Tory politician and Member of Parliament.-Biography:A member of the Old Durham branch of the Tempest family, Tempest was born in Sherburn, Durham, the son of John Tempest of Wynyard and Frances Shuttleworth...
was a County Durham landowner, Tory politician and Member of Parliament.
A member of the Old Durham branch of the Tempest family, Tempest was born in Sherburn (Durham),the son of John Tempest of Wynyard (1710–1776) and Frances Shuttleworth.
He represented the City of Durham in the Parliaments of 1768, 1774, 1780, 1784 and 1790, and joined his fellow Durham M.P. John Lambton
John Lambton
Major-General John Lambton of Harraton Hall, later of Lambton Castle, County Durham, was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.Lambton was the fourth son of Ralph Lambton...
in constantly opposing the administration of Lord North.
He married Ann Townsend (?-1817) daughter of Joseph Townsend of Honington, Warwickshire. Their only son, John Wharton Tempest (1772–1793) (the subject of a painting by George Romney), predeceased them as a result of a riding accident.
He was injured whilst attempting to ride two horses at once in emulation of a circus trick and sustained a haematoma which proved fatal despite the attentions of the eminent surgeon John Hunter
John Hunter (surgeon)
John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...
(Quoted in The Noels and the Milbankes). The Tempest estates were devolved to his sister's son Henry by the Rev. Sir Henry Vane Bt. of Long Newton upon condition that he assume the name and arms of Tempest.Henry Vane-Tempest
Henry Vane-Tempest
Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet was a British politician.Vane-Tempest was the son and heir of Rev. Sir Henry Vane, 1st Baronet and his wife, Frances, née Tempest...
Bt. (1771–1813) replaced his uncle as M.P. for Durham City 17/10/1794 and was the ancestor of the Vane-Tempest-Stewarts, Earls Vane and Marquesses of Londonderry.
Tempest Baronets of Tong, Yorkshire
Created 25 May 1664 in the Baronetcy of England for John Tempest.- Sir John Tempest, 1st Baronet (1645–23 Jun 1693)
- Sir George Tempest, 2nd Baronet (22 May 1672–11 Oct 1745)
- Sir Henry Tempest, 3rd Baronet (1 Sep 1696–9 Nov 1753)
- Sir Henry Tempest, 4th Baronet (13 Jan 1753–29 Jan 1819) Baronetcy extinct on his death.
Tempest Baronet of Broughton Hall and Coleby
Created in 1841 in the Baronetcy of the UK for Sir Charles with the seat at Coleby, Lincolnshire.- Sir Charles Robert Tempest, 1st Baronet (21 April 1794 – 8 December 1865). Baronetcy extinct on his death.