William Francis Cowper-Temple, baron Mount-Temple

(1811-1888)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mount-Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888 NRA: Temple, William Francis Cowper- (1811-1888) Baron Mount Temple, politician DNB: Temple, William Francis Cowper-, Baron Mount-Temple (1811-1888), politician LBT ID: LdMtTem VIAF ID: 9801500 LOC ID: nr2005011668	B/BAP: 1811-12-13 DIED: 1888-10-16
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The son of Emily Mary Lamb, sister of Viscount Melbourne; his father was likely Lord Palmerston, whose adopted child he became; he was MP for Hertford (1835-63) and held a variety of public offices.
REFERENCES TO William Francis Cowper-Temple, baron Mount-Temple: L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 30 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter IX. Found 1: ¶ 40