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Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston

Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, FRS (4 December 1739 – 17 April 1802), was a British politician.

Life edit

Temple was a son of Henry Temple (son of Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston) and Jane, daughter of Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor of London.[1]

He was born into 'the Ascendancy', the Anglo-Irish aristocracy. His family owned a vast country estate in the north of County Sligo in the west of Ireland. He succeeded to the peerage in 1757, and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge from 1757 to 1759.[2]

As a member of the British House of Commons, he represented the constituencies of East Looe between 1762 and 1768, Southampton between 1768 and 1774, Hastings between 1774 and 1784, Boroughbridge between 1784 and 1790, Newport, Isle of Wight between 1790 and 1796, and Winchester between 1796 and his death in 1802.

He was appointed to the Board of Trade in 1765, was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty between 1766 and 1777, and was a Lord of the Treasury from 1777 to 1782.

In 1763 Temple journeyed to Italy, staying with Voltaire at Ferney en route. He reached Rome in 1764, and from there visited Paestum, south of Naples. He bought antiquities and paintings from Gavin Hamilton, antiquities from Giovanni Battista Piranesi, paintings from Angelica Kauffman, cameos from Giovanni Pichler and sculpture from Joseph Nollekens.[3]

He died on 17 April 1802 at his house in Hanover Square, Westminster,[1] and was buried at Romsey Abbey with a monument by John Flaxman.[4]

He left behind his wife and children. His son, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

A portrait of Henry Temple by Angelica Kauffman is held at Broadlands, Hampshire.

Arms edit

Coat of arms of Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
Crest
A talbot sejant Sable plain collared Or.[5]
Escutcheon
Quarterly 1st & 4th Or an eagle displayed Sable (Leofric, Saxon Earl of Mercia), 2nd & 3rd Argent two bars Sable each charged with three martlets Or (Temple).
Supporters
Dexter a lion reguardant poean sinister a horse reguardant Argent mane tail and hoofs Or.
Motto
Flecti Non Frangi (To Be Bent Not Broken)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Davies, Edward J. (2008). "The Ancestry of Lord Palmerston". The Genealogist. 22: 62–77.
  2. ^ "Palmerston, Henry (Temple), Viscount (PLMN757HT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Bignamini, Ilaria; Hornsby, Clare (2010). Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 313–315. ISBN 978-0300160437.
  4. ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.150
  5. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1865. p. 268.

Further reading edit

  • Brian Connell, Portrait of a Whig Peer. Compiled from the papers of the Second Viscount Palmerston 1739 – 1802 (1957. London)
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Looe
1762–1768
With: John Buller
Succeeded by
Richard Hussey
John Buller
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Southampton
17681774
With: Hans Stanley
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Hastings
17741784
With: Charles Jenkinson
John Ord
Succeeded by
John Stanley
John Dawes
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge
17841790
With: Sir Richard Sutton, Bt
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newport
17901796
With: Viscount Melbourne to 1793
Peniston Lamb from 1793
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Henry Penton
Richard Grace Gamon
Member of Parliament for Winchester
17961800
With: Richard Grace Gamon
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Great Britain
Member of Parliament for Winchester
1801
With: Richard Grace Gamon
Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Palmerston
1757–1802
Succeeded by

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