TEMPLE, Thomas (1614-74), of Stanton Bury, Bucks.

Family and Education

b. 1614, 2nd s. of Sir John Temple of Stanton Bury and Dorothy, da. of Edmund Lee of Stanton Bury. suc. fa. 23 Sept. 1632. cr. bt. 7 July 1662. unm. d. 27 Mar. 1674.CB.

Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), army of 3rd earl of Essex, 15 July 1642–?1645.SP28/1A/49; SP28/7/107; Peacock, Army Lists, 56. Col. Nova Scotia forces, Aug. 1656-May 1660.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 286–9.

Colonial: gov. Nova Scotia 17 Sept. 1656 – May 1660, 10 July 1662-July 1667.CB; Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iv. 286–9.

Parlimentarian

TEMPLE, Thomas (1614-74), of Stanton Bury, Bucks.

: Bucks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

TEMPLE, Thomas (1614-74), of Stanton Bury, Bucks.

Will

Temple’s will (‘which he left in New England’ in 1673) appears not to have survived.Recs. Suffolk County Court, i. 476-7.

Estates

inherited lands at Stanton Bury, Bucks.; held share in territory of Nova Scotia, Aug. 1656-July 1667, and lands in New England;Oxford DNB. at his d. Temple was insolvent, and his New England properties were divided among his creditors.Recs. of Suffolk County Court (2 vols., Collns. Colonial Soc. Mass., xxix-xxx, Boston 1933), i. 476-7.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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