Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston ( – 10 June 1757), of East Sheen, Surrey and Broadlands, Hampshire, was an Anglo- Irish landowner and Whig politician who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1747.

Early life

Temple was the eldest son of Sir John Temple, Speaker of the

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, and his wife Jane Yarner, daughter of Sir Abraham Yarner, muster-master general for Ireland. He was educated at

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from around 1689 to 1693 and was admitted at

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in 1693. On 10 June 1703, he married Anne Houblon (1683 - 13 December 1735), the daughter of

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, a governor of the

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Political career

In 1715, Temple acceded to a place as joint chief remembrancer of the court of Exchequer for Ireland, for which he was granted the reversion as a child in 1680. He was created

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of Palmerston, County Dublin, and

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on 12 March 1723. He helped

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in his schemes in the West Indies. At the

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, Temple was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for

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. He voted with successive Administrations throughout his career. At the

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, he transferred to

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and was returned unopposed as MP. He transferred again at the

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and was returned as MP again unopposed. In 1740 he became the sole holder of his place as chief remembrancer of the court of the Irish Exchequer and held it for the rest of his life. He did not stand at the

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Domestic life

In 1736, Palmerston bought

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from Humphrey Sydenham and began to rework the gardens there. He began the deformalisation of the gardens between the river and the house and produced the (broad-lands) "gentle descent to the river". On 11 May 1738 at

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, he married again, to Isabella Fryer, widow of

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, and daughter of

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. Cokayne, George Edward (1900)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume I. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 143

Death and legacy

Palmerston died aged 84 on 10 June 1757. He had two children by his first wife, neither of whom survived him.: *

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(died 18 August 1740) * Richard Temple (c.1726 – 8 August 1749) He had no children by his second wife Isabella, who died on 11 August 1762 at North End,

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. Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 25 He was succeeded by his grandson

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Arms

References

External links

Temple pedigree
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