[3] James Kyrle's wife, Ann, was the sister of the poet Edmund Waller and her maternal uncle was the statesman John Hampden.

From his early twenties he adopted a frugal lifestyle and instead of utilising his wealth for himself, he sought to invest in the greater good of his locality and community that lived there.

Kyrle lived a great deal in the open air, working with the labourers on his farm and taking exercise to stay healthy.

[8] His memory was also preserved by the Kyrle Society, founded in 1876 by Miranda and Octavia Hill, to better the life of working people, by laying out parks, encouraging house decoration, window gardening and flower growing.

Ross and John Kyrle were eulogised by Alexander Pope in the third of his Moral Essays "Of the Use of Riches" (1734); Who taught that heav’n directed Spire to rise?

He feeds yon Alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate; Him portion’d maids, apprentic’d orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest.