Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet (28 March 1634 – 8 May 1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and from 1660 to 1697.

Life

Temple was the son of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet and his second wife Christian Leveson daughter of Sir John Leveson. He inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1653.

In 1654, Temple was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in the First Protectorate Parliament and in 1659, he was elected MP for Buckingham in the Third Protectorate Parliament.

Temple was elected MP again for Buckingham in 1660 for the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. In the 1679 election there was a double return and Sir Peter Tyrell was declared elected. However Temple regained the seat in August 1679 and held it until his death in 1697. In 1676 Temple commissioned a new house at Stowe which forms the core of the present building.

Temple died at the age of 63.

Family

Temple married Mary Knapp, daughter of Thomas Knapp of Oxford. His son Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham inherited the baronetcy and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Cobham. His eldest daughter Maria married Richard West.