Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston

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 British House of Commons from 1727 to 1747.

Early life Temple was the eldest son of Sir John Temple, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and his wife Jane Yarner, daughter of Sir Abraham Yarner, muster-master general for Ireland. He was educated at Eton College from around 1689 to 1693 and was admitted at King's College, Cambridge in 1693. On 10 June 1703, he married Anne Houblon (1683 - 13 December 1735), the daughter of Abraham Houblon, a governor of the Bank of England.

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 Viscount Palmerston of Palmerston, County Dublin, and Baron Temple of Mount Temple on 12 March 1723. He helped Bishop Berkeley in his schemes in the West Indies.

Death and legacy Palmerston died aged 84 on 10 June 1757. He had two children by his first wife, neither of whom survived him.: Henry Temple, Lord Temple of Mount Temple (died 18 August 1740) father of Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston Richard Temple (MP) (c.1726 – 8 August 1749) He had no children by his second wife Isabella, who died on 11 August 1762 at North End, Hammersmith. He was succeeded by his grandson Henry.

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