TEMPLE, Henry, 1st Visct. Palmerston [I] (c.1673-1757), of East Sheen, Surr. and Broadlands, Hants.

‘Little Broadbottom Palmerston’, as Sir Charles Hanbury Williams called him,Works, ii. 265. came of a distinguished Anglo-Irish family, to whose merits, apparently, rather than to his own, he owed the Irish peerage which was given him at the age of 50.Lodge, Irish Peerage, v. 243. A placeman, who had been granted the reversion of his office when a boy in 1680, provided with seats in different parts of the country, he voted for successive Administrations in all recorded divisions. As a member of the Irish lobby in the House, he took part in discussions on a proposal to remove the duty on Irish yarn in 1731.HMC Egmont Diary, i. 161-2.

He died 10 June 1757, aged 84.