New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-06
TEMPLE BAR0NETCY
Lady Godiva AnCestress of This
Ang|o-American Family.

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King Edwards royal warrant issued
only few weeks before his death. direct
Ing that an official record OF the order of
baronets should be prepared and kept at
the Home Department and that no per-
son whose name is not mentioned on the
roll should be officially acknowledged or
addressed as a baronet. at the same time
appointing commission for the examna-
ton Of ali claims 10 be included in the roll,
has resulted In the disappearance OF a
number Of baronets with doubtful titles
from the pages of the 1911 editions of
"Burke's,' and other standard works Cf
reference.
Among the baronets who have thus dis
appeared from the scene is Sir Granville
Louis Temple. who has hitherto figured in
the official peerages and baronetages as the
twelfth baronet of stowe. Burke in par
ticular. devotng until this year three long
| columns 10 his family
The case is of considerable interest on
this side of the Atlantic for a variety of
reasons. One Of them is that Sir Grenville
was long reported as missing in the
| United States. but is now serving in The
| Canadian mounted police in the semi-Arc-
tic region of Prince Albert Land The sec
himself Of the fact that Sir" Grenville
| was described as missing" assumed his
name and title. by means of which he
perpetrated on both sides of the Atlantic
a number Of frauds. and induced an I'M
lucky American woman TO marry him. The
third reason is that the eighth baronet, on
the strength of whose assumption of the
title at the end of the eighteenth century
To- c..lo a
baronet. as his senior descendant in the
| male line, was an American.
The family is a very ancient one, being
descended from Earl Leofric and his
countess, the famous Lady Godiva and
among his ancestors are Robert Temple
lord of the Manor Of Temple. in leicester
shire, in the reign of Henry III. Peter
Temple obtained from King Edward VI
| grant of the manor of stowe. In Buck
inghsmshre. and his grandson, Thomas
| Temple. was created a baronet in 1911 by
James l. He had thirteen children. and
Fuller in his "Worthies of England re-
lates that Lady Temple lived, TO see seven
| hundred Of her own descendants.
| When Sir Richard Temple. the seventh
! haronet, died without issue, in lisS. George
Temple, Marquis of Buckingham and father
Of the first Duke Of Buckingham ana
| Chandos, as member of the Temple fam
! ily highest in rank and a senior heir gen
eral addressed letter TO his kinsman,
| John Temple a native Of Boston and at
| the time British Consul General in the
United States residing i'm New York. an
| nouncing TO him formally that the Temple
| baronetcy of Stowe had devoved upon him
! as heir male. The marquis further stated
| that he had taken care TO notify LORD Car
marthen, then Secretary of state. or the
! fact. in order that he. John Temple. should
be acknowledged as a baronet in official
| communications.
! The consul general, John Temple. there
| upon assumed the style of Sir John
! Temple, Bart" married a daughter OF
| James Bowdoin. Governor Of the State OF
| Massachusetts, and one of his daughters,
! Elizabeth married Thomas l.. Winthrop.
also Governor of Massachusetts. Sir John
| was succeeded by his son Grenville. who.
| born in Boston. was married 10 a daughter
of Colonel George Watson. of that city
and from him Sir Grenvile Louis Temple.
| of the Canadian mounted police. is the
senior descendant in the direct male line.
! Another descendant of Consul General John
| Temple is Temple Bowdoir. Of New York.
| Now, IL the Marquis of Buckingham in
sisted upon the consul general. John
Temple. assuming the Temple of Stowe
baronetcy it was because he believed that
as a descendant of the Rev. Thomas
! Temple third son of the first baronet. John
! Temple was the senior heir. This would
| have been undoubtedly correct had the
whole Issue Of the first baronets second
| son become extinct. This second son was
| John Temple. and he had four sons Peter,
| Thomas. Edmund and Purbeck. The de-
! scendants OF Peter succeeded to the bar
/ onetcy on the death of the fourth baronet
! and became extinct with the death of the
| seventh haronet. The baronetcy should
| thereupon have gone to the descendants OF
| Thomas. who. however died unmarried.
Next came Edmund. Edmund married. in
1917. Eleanor. daughter and heiress Of SIR
| Stephen Harvey. Of Hardingstone by whom
| he had three sons. stephen, who died with
out issue. John and Edmund. Now both
John and Edmund left several sons, and It
| is known that there are male descendants
! living of these sons. all of whom would he
| entitled To the baronetcv of Stowe before
the descendants Of the consul general John
/ Temple. Of Boston. who as / have pointed
out above. was only descended from the
! third son Of the first baronet. Most of the
| Rev. DR.. Thomas Temples descendants
made their home in America. one Of his
| Crandsons. William Temple. marrying a
daughter of Governor Whipple of New
! Hampshire Not until Sir Grenvile Temple
| can prove the absence of any survivors in
| tho male line direct of John and Edmund
Temple can he establish his claims TO the