page_title: Alexander Temple
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Temple / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Longhouse Place (now Chadwell place), the childhood home of James Temple
context_page_description: Sir Alexander Temple was an English landowner and Member of Parliament. He was born at Stowe House in 1583 and knighted in 1603. During his life he held many public offices, including MP for Sussex. He was buried in Rochester Cathedral.
context_section_description: Temple was born at Stowe House, the fourth son of John Temple and Susan Spencer)
  and was baptised on 9 February 1582/3. He was the brother of Sir Thomas Temple and the brother-in-law of Viscount Saye and Sele.
  In 1602 he married Mary Penistone (née Sommer) of Rochester Kent. They had three children:
  * John, killed at the Isle of Rhe;
  * James Temple, the regicide;
  * Susan or Susanna Temple, maid of honour to Anne of Denmark, who married (1) Sir Gifford Thornhurst of Agney Court, Kent,  and (2) Sir Martin Lister. Through her first marriage, Susan was grandmother of Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough. Her portrait was painted by Cornelius Johnson.
  As a result of this marriage, Temple gained four step children including Sir Thomas Penistone
  Temple was knighted at the Tower of London by James I following the King's accession to the English throne - one of many members of the gentry who were knighted during the first years of the King's reign.
  Following the death of his first wife, Sir Alexander moved to Chadwell St Mary in Essex.
  In the early 1620s, he married Mary Bankworth (who was previously married to John Busbridge), and moved to Haremere Hall in Etchingham, Sussex.
  Temple died in 1629 and was buried in Rochester Cathedral.
caption: Longhouse Place (now known as Chadwell Place), the home of Sir Alexander Temple from 1607
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