Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet

Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet, KB (28 March 1634 – 8 May 1697) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1697.

Temple was the son of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet of Stowe and his second wife Christian Leveson, daughter of Sir John Leveson.

[1] He was admitted at Gray's Inn on 6 November 1648 and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 23 December 1648.

He took a leading part against the Popish Plot, and for excluding James, Duke of York from the crown.

[3] In 1676 Temple commissioned a new house at Stowe which forms the core of the present building.

Arms of Temple of Stowe: Or, an eagle displayed sable
St John the Baptist Church, Hagley , memorial to Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet (1686–1751) and his wife Christian, née Temple