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Town Crier - "Local Peer Spills the Beans on Ancestors"

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  AS a golden wedding anniversary present to his wife, local peer Lord Nicholas (Nick) Hemingford has completed a book which spills the beans on his forebears.

It includes an arms smuggler, an actor who drank 93 half pints a day and a clergyman who kept his maids' suitors away with a shotgun.

Lord Hemingford, 74, said he made the promise to his wife Jenny and numerous relatives that he would complete the family history while at a family get-together at his home at the Old Rectory in Hemingford Abbots last year.

He said he would finish the book by December 2008 and naturally - being a trained journalist - he succeeded in meeting the deadline.

The book is entitled Successive Journeys: A Family in Four Continents, although Lord Hemingford says his wife gave it another name during its compilation as it had interrupted the normal tenor of their lives.

Lord Hemingford said: "It was quite a rush but I responded to the deadline. My wife has been very supportive, despite the rather embarrassing goings-on of some of my ancestors."

The peer, who is the fourth generation of his family to live at Hemingford Abbots, added: "Most people have some exotic characters among their forebears, but I


Cambridge News - "A Family History Makes New Book"

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