The 3rd Baron Hemingford 1934-2022

 Lord Hemingford, the 3rd Baron, died 17 December, 2022, aged 88.

Dennis Nicholas Herbert was born 25 July, 1934, son of the 2nd Baron (1904-1982), and his wife the former Elizabeth McClare Clark (d 29 July, 1979); and succeeded to the peerage (created, UK, 1943), on his father's death, 19 June, 1982.

 His grandfather was the politician Sir Dennis Herbert, who served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1931 to 1943. His father, the second Baron, notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough from 1968 to 1974.

Lord Hemingford was Assistant Washington correspondent for The Times between 1961 and 1965. He was Middle East correspondent between 1966 and 1968, and was deputy features editor between 1968 and 1970. He was editor of the Cambridge Evening News, 1970-1974. He was editor director of Westminster Press between 1974 and 1992.He was appointed Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (F.R.S.A.) in 1989. He was deputy chief executive of Westminster Press between 1992 and 1995.His home was The Old Rectory, Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire.

Lord Hemingford married firstly, 8 November, 1958, Jennifer Mary Toresen Bailey, CBE (who died 8 Jan, 2018), daughter of Frederick William Bailey, of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, by whom he had issue, a son, Christopher, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Caroline and Alice. He married 2ndly, in 2020, Jill Paton Walsh, who died 18 October, 2020, aged 83, who was a novelist ranging from children’s stories to Dorothy Sayers mysteries. Her novel Knowledge of Angels was turned down by 19 British publishers, but the Booker Prize judges thought differently and shortlisted it. Lady Hemingford was born Gillian Bliss, in North Finchley, 29 April, 1937, the oldest of four children of John Llewellyn Bliss, an engineer and pioneering television cameraman, and his wife Patricia (Patsy).  

His only son, the Hon Christopher Dennis Charles Herbert (born 4 July, 1973), now succeeds as 4th Baron Hemingford.

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