William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron Mount-Temple
1811–88
Politician. Educated at Eton College. Entered the Royal Horse Guards, 1827; brevet major, 1852. MP for Hertford, 1835–68; for South Hampshire, 1868–80. Lord of the Admiralty, 1846–55. President of the Board of Health. Commissioner of works, 1860–66. Instrumental in establishing state-funded, non-denominational schools. Created Baron Mount-Temple, 1880.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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