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Herbert Lionel Henry Vane-Tempest, KCVO (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 26 January 1921, killing 17 people. The crash arose from misunderstandings between staff which effectively over-rode the safe operation of ...

in January 1921.

Life

Vane-Tempest 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. Vane-Tempest was a

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of both

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and

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

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. He was a

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and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the

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. In 1905, Vane-Tempest 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,

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 chain ...

. On 26 January 1921, Vane-Tempest 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 Vane-Tempest, aged 58.

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was Vane-Tempest's first cousin once removed and inherited several thousand pounds from a trust set up by Vane-Tempest's grandmother (Churchill's great-grandmother) to aid her male descendants who were not due to inherit the family titles, as Vane-Tempest died a

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. Churchill was able to put this inheritance towards the purchase of

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