Richard Temple 1634-1697
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Sir Richard TEMPLE, 3rd bart, 1634-97
Biographical Note
Of Stowe, Buckinghamshire; MP.
Son of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd baronet (d.1653), of Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Entered Gray's Inn 1648 and admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge later that year. MP for Warwickshire 1654 and for Buckingham 1659, 1660, 1661.
Books
Amassed a library of ca.2400 books.
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Abernethy, G. Sir Richard Temple and the Stowe Library, Huntington Library Quarterly 40 (1976), 45-58.
- Handley, Stuart. "Temple, Sir Richard, third baronet (1634–1697), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.