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Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache


Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache, 3rd Baron Tollemache DL, JP (7 March 1883 – 13 January 1955) was a British Army officer, peer and writer on croquet and bridge.

Bentley Lyonel John Tollemache was the grandson of Wilbraham Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, and Peckforton Castle, Cheshire, succeeding him to the barony in December 1904, and to the ownership of 35,726 acres (145 km2) of land within Suffolk, Cheshire, Denbigh and Flint. He was educated at Eton College, and later became a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace. Before marriage he was a member of the Bachelors' Club.

Tollemache first married in 1902 Wynford Rose Kemball (died 16 May 1926), daughter of army officer and diplomat Arnold Burrowes Kemball RA, KCB, KCSI. The marriage produced two female children. His second marriage in 1928 was to Lynette Pawson, MBE, of Nynehead Court, Somerset, the marriage producing one female child.

In 1924 he appealed to the tax commissioners against an assessment for supertax of £17,343 and £18,000 for the years 1921 and 1922.


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