Eleanor Blanche Tempest

Eleanor Blanche Tempest (née Reynard, 1853–1928) was an English local historian, palaeographer, archivist, and genealogist. She collected and preserved local archives and pedigrees in the north of England, especially pertaining to the Tempest family and its estates. A contributor to several history journals, she transcribed the parish register of Coleby, North Kesteven for the Parish Record Society and was a founding member of the Lincoln Record Society.

Early life and family She was born Eleanor Blanche Reynard in 1853, the second daughter of Edward Horner Reynard and his wife Elizabeth, née Mason. On 28 April 1873 she married Major Arthur Cecil Tempest. She was confirmed into the Roman Catholic Church two months later.

Later life In 1920, her husband died and she went to live on her brother’s estate at Markington, where she began researching the charters of the Ingilby family at Ripley Castle.

She died in 1928.