Earl Temple of Stowe

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Stowe House 2002

Earl Temple of Stowe , in the County of Buckingham , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Awarding and special inheritance regulation

It was created on February 4, 1822 for Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Marquess of Buckingham , who was also raised to Marquess of Chandos and Duke of Buckingham and Chandos .

The name of the Earldom is derived from Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, the then family seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos.

The inheritance of the titles was regulated by a special addition ( Special Remainder ) in the award certificate ( Letters Patent ). While the titles of Marquess and Dukes could only be inherited by direct, legitimate male descendants of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, the title of Earl Temple of Stowe could, in the absence of male descendants, be passed on to the male descendants of his late great-grandmother Hester Grenville , 1. Countess Temple will be inherited, as well as after the extinction of this line to his granddaughter Lady Anna Eliza Grenville, daughter of his son Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville , and her male descendants. After this line became extinct, it was again possible to bequeath it to younger sisters of Lady Anna Eliza Grenville and their male descendants who were still unborn at the time, although she ultimately had no other sister.

Further history of the title

The title of Earl remained until the death of the grandson of the 1st Duke, Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos , a subordinate title of the Dukes. When he died on March 26, 1889, the title of Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and the subordinate titles, Marquess of Buckingham , Marquess of Chandos , Earl Nugent and Earl Temple expired . His subordinate titles Viscount Cobham and Lord Kinloss fell to other relatives. The title Earl Temple of Stowe inherited according to the special addition, his nephew William Temple-Gore-Langton as 4th Earl. This was the eldest son of the aforementioned Lady Anna Eliza Grenville and her husband William Gore-Langton.

The 4th Earl Temple of Stowe was previously under his birth name William Stephen Gore-Langton for the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons , in which he represented the constituency of Mid Somerset . By a Royal License (Royal License) in 1892 he also took the surname Temple. He was inherited as 5th Earl by his eldest son. After he died childless, his nephew inherited the title of 6th Earl. This was the eldest son of Captain Chandos Graham Temple-Gore-Langton, the second eldest son of the 4th Earl of Temple of Gore. Since the 6th Earl only had two daughters, the title fell to his younger brother as the 7th Earl when he died in 1966. However, he worked as a traveling merchant in Australia and did not use the title. In addition, he was not married, so that the title fell to his cousin as 8th Earl. This was a son of Evelyn Arthur Grenville Temple-Gore-Langton, the third and youngest son of the 4th Earl Temple of Stowe. After the death of the 8th Earl Temple of Stowe, his son James Grenville Temple-Gore-Langton inherited the title of 9th Earl Temple of Stowe. He is also entitled to inherit the title of Lord Kinloss, which is currently worn by Teresa Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss .

Since the Earl Temple of Stowe has no subordinate title, the eldest son of the respective earl uses the invented courtesy title Lord Langton as his title heir ( heir apparent ) .

List of Earls Temple of Stowe (1822)

Presumed title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the brother of the current title holder, Hon. Robert Chandos Grenville Temple-Gore-Langton (* 1957).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b London Gazette . No. 26087, HMSO, London, September 12, 1890, p. 4944 ( PDF , English).

Web links

  • Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
  • Entry in Leigh Rayment's Peerage