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Friday, December 30, 2022

(Douglas) Nigel Leigh-Pemberton 1929-2022

 (Douglas) Nigel Leigh-Pemberton, who died 15 December, 2022, aged 93, was a scion of that landed gentry family.

He was born 9 May, 1929, son of Capt Robert Douglas Leigh-Pemberton, MBE, MC(1896-1964), of Kippen, Sittingbourne, Kent, and his wife the former Helen Isabel Payne-Gallwey (d 1985), descended from the Payne Bts, and was a younger brother of Robin Leigh-Pemberton, the Baron Kingsdown, KG (1927-2013).

He married 21 July, 1973, Alexandra Valerie Roper, daughter of J.C.A. Roper, by whom he had issue, a son, Charles, and two daughters, Laura and Georgina.

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