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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham PC (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer under William III during the Williamite War in Ireland and during the Nine Years' War , he fought under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , during the War of the Spanish ...
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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham. The viscountcy of...
- Viscount Cobham
The Cobhamite faction (often known as Cobham's Cubs) were an 18th-century British political faction built around Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham and his supporters. Among its members, the group included the future Prime Ministers William Pitt and George Grenville.
Temple, Richard, first Viscount Cobham ( 1675–1749 ), politician and landowner, was born on 24 October 1675, the first child of Sir Richard Temple, third baronet (1634–1697), of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and MP for Buckingham, and his wife and first cousin, Mary (b. after 1640, d. 1726), the daughter of Henry Knapp of Rawlins, Oxfordshire.
…politically powerful millionaire nobleman, Lord Cobham, who lived in splendour in a palatial mansion and vast park at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, to which William and his friends paid visits. Cobham sent William abroad on “The Grand Tour” of Europe (only France and Switzerland were visited, however) and later bought him…
Lieut-General Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, (1675–1749) was a British soldier and politician. He was known for his ownership of and modifications to the estate at Stowe and for serving as a political mentor to the young William Pitt.
Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), Field Marshal and politician; MP for Buckinghamshire. Sitter in 8 portraits.
