Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, FRS (4 December 1739 – 17 April 1802), was a British politician.
Life
Temple was a son of Henry Temple (son of
Sir John Barnard, Lord Mayor of London.[1]
He was born into '
country estate in the north of County Sligo in the west of Ireland. He succeeded to the peerage in 1757, and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge from 1757 to 1759.[2]
As a member of the
Winchester
between 1796 and his death in 1802.
He was appointed to the
Lord of the Treasury
from 1777 to 1782.
In 1763 Temple journeyed to Italy, staying with
Ferney en route. He reached Rome in 1764, and from there visited Paestum, south of Naples. He bought antiquities and paintings from Gavin Hamilton, antiquities from Giovanni Battista Piranesi, paintings from Angelica Kauffman, cameos from Giovanni Pichler and sculpture from Joseph Nollekens.[3]
He died on 17 April 1802 at his house in Hanover Square, Westminster,[1] and was buried at Romsey Abbey with a monument by John Flaxman.[4]
He left behind his wife and children. His son, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.
A portrait of Henry Temple by Angelica Kauffman is held at Broadlands, Hampshire.
Arms
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References
- ^ a b Davies, Edward J. (2008). "The Ancestry of Lord Palmerston". The Genealogist. 22: 62–77.
- ^ "Palmerston, Henry (Temple), Viscount (PLMN757HT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-0300160437.
- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.150
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1865. p. 268.
Further reading
- Brian Connell, Portrait of a Whig Peer. Compiled from the papers of the Second Viscount Palmerston 1739 – 1802 (1957. London)
