Lord Herbert Lionel Henry Vane-Tempest (6 July 1862 – 26 January 1921) was a British company director. He was a director of the

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and died in the

Abermule train collision The Abermule train collision was a head-on collision which occurred at Abermule, Montgomeryshire, Wales, on Wednesday, 26 January 1921, killing 17 people. The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe ...

in January 1921.

Life

Lord Herbert was born into, on his father's side, an aristocratic family of partial

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descent, being the son of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry and his wife, Mary Cornelia Edwards, and brother of the 6th Marquess of Londonderry. He was born on 6 July 1862. Lord Herbert was a Justice of the Peace of both

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and

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. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration and was appointed Knight Commander,

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. He was a

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and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Durham Artillery Militia. In 1905, Lord Herbert became a director of the Cambrian Railways. The following year, he inherited

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and a considerable fortune from his mother, Mary. In 1910, Lord Herbert was appointed the

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. Also in 1910, he became a director of a new company set up to revive the moribund

Mawddwy Railway The Mawddwy Railway was a rural line in the Dyfi Valley in mid-Wales that connected Dinas Mawddwy with a junction at railway station on the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway section of the Cambrian Railways. Despite being only 6 miles 63 cha ...

Death

On Wednesday, 26 January 1921, Lord Herbert joined the east-bound express train from at . Just before noon, the train was approaching where it was due to cross the west-bound stopping train from Whitchurch, Shropshire. Due to a failure by the staff at Abermule, the train from Whitchurch was allowed to proceed westward while the express train was approaching the station. The two trains collided west of Abermule station. Seventeen people were killed, including Lord Herbert, aged 58. He was buried in Machynlleth on Saturday, 29 January.

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was Lord Herbert's first cousin once removed and inherited several thousand pounds from a trust set up by Lord Herbert's grandmother (Churchill's great-grandmother),

Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry (17 January 1800 – 20 January 1865) was an Anglo-Irish heiress and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, 2nd Baronet. She married Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, C ...

, to aid her male descendants who were not due to inherit the family titles, as Lord Herbert died a bachelor. Churchill was able to put this inheritance towards the purchase of

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