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REPLY1850

Mrs. Tempest

By J. T. HAMMACK.

This lady was one of the two daughters of Henry Tempest, Esq., of Newton Grange, Yorkshire (son of Sir John Tempest of Tong Hall, who was created a baronet in 1664), by his wife Alathea, daughter of Sir Henry Thompson of Marston, co. York. She died unmarried in 1703. As the Daphne of Pope's pastoral "Winter," inscribed to her memory, she is celebrated in terms which scarcely bear out the remark of your correspondent, that the poet "has no special allusion to her."

Topics: Victorian Poetry, Literature

Locations: Newton Grange, Yorkshire, Tong Hall, Marston, co. York