Anne Valerie Tempest (born 22 August 1959),[1] known as Annie Tempest, is a British artist, sculptor and cartoonist initially known for her cartoon strip The Yuppies which ran for seven years in the Daily Mail, and now for her strip Tottering-by-Gently which has appeared in Country Life magazine since 1993.
The 3,000 acre Broughton Hall estate is now run by her brother Roger,[5] who is the oldest son of her father.
[4] Annie Tempest married the composer James McConnel in 1991; they had a son (Freddy) and a daughter (Daisy).
[2] Both her children feature in the Tottering-by-Gently comic strip as grandchildren of Lord and Lady Tottering.
[2] Freddy died of a heroin overdose in 2011 at the age of 18, and Annie Tempest has said that she intends to retain him in the comic strip, but that he will remain 18.