Walter Grenville Algernon Temple-Gore-Langton, 8th Earl Temple of Stowe (2 October 1924 – 17 September 2013) was a British peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1988 until 1999.
The son of Lt.-Commander the Hon. Evelyn Arthur Grenville Temple-Gore-Langton and his wife Irene Maria Gartside-Spaight, he was educated at the Nautical College, Pangbourne. In 1988 he succeeded as Earl Temple of Stowe.[1]
He married, firstly, Zillah Ray Boxall, daughter of James Boxall, on 24 July 1954, and before she died on 12 October 1966 they had three children:[1]
- James Grenville Temple-Gore-Langton, 9th Earl Temple of Stowe (born 1955)
- Robert Chandos Temple-Gore-Langton (born 1957)
- Lady Anna Clare Temple-Gore-Langton (born 1960)
On 1 June 1968, Temple of Stowe married secondly Margaret Elizabeth Graham Scarth ( Elizabeth), only surviving daughter of Colonel Henry William Scarth and Mary Beatrix Robertson of the Breckness Estate, Sandwick, Orkney. [1][2]
Notes edit
- ^ a b c Burke's Peerage, volume 3 (Burke's Peerage Ltd., 2003), p. 3870
- ^ Alex Pease, Elizabeth Countess Temple of Stowe 1928-2018, itchenvalleychurches.org, 2018, accessed 25 January 2023