A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Tempest, Miss
TEMPEST, MISS,
Of the Grange, near Ackworth, sister to Sir Charies Tempest, Bart., of Broughton Hall, in the county of York, has been appointed overseer of the poor for the parish of Ackworth, together with John Hagues, cow-leech, also of the parish of Ackworth. The appointment was made at Wentbridge on the 26th. ultimo, and it endorsed by "two of her majesty's justices of the peace."
Such is the announcement in the Gloucester Chronicle of 1849 Truly, we see no reason why ladies should not hold such appointments in every country; they have leisure to attend to the duty of visiting the poor, which is a most important part of the relief needed.