page_title: Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe
section_title: Marriage and children
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe / Marriage and children
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary's parish church, Stowe, Buckinghamshire: monument in the Penyston Chapel to Martha Penistone née Temple, daughter of Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet, of Stowe, and first wife of Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet. She died in 1619 or 1620.
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and Member of Parliament.
context_section_description: He married Hester Sandys the daughter of Miles Sandys in about 1585 or 1586. Sir Thomas and Hester had fifteen recorded children, 2 of whom died in infancy; of the remainder, 4 were sons and 9 were daughters.
  Susan	b. 1587  	m. Edward Clark by 1606
  Hester   	b. 1589  	m. Sir John Rous in 1605
  Bridget   	b. 1591  	m. to Sir John Lenthall by 1606. He was the brother of Speaker Lenthall
  Peter	b. 1592 - eldest son and heir
  John 	b. 1593 – d. 1594
  Martha  	b. 1595  	m. Thomas Penistone in 1611
  Elizabeth  b. 1596   	m. Sir Henry Gibbs by 1614
  John 	b. 1598	m. Dorothy Lee by 1613
  Catherine b. 1599   	m. Sir William Ashcoombe in 1613
  Ann     	b. 1601  	m. Sir William Andrews in 1617
  Jane Sibilla b. 1602 – d. 1602 
  Thomas   	b. 1604
  Margaret  b. 1606  	m. Edward Longueville c. 1627
  Miles     	b. 1608
  Millicent 	b. 1611   m. Thomas Ogle c. 1629
  Through his son John, Temple's grandson  Col. Thomas Temple, was a proprietor and governor of the English colony of Nova Scotia from 1656 to 1670. His daughter Martha's husband was the step-son and ward of Sir Thomas' younger brother, Sir Alexander Temple. Martha was described as "a dainte fine lady”. Around 1619, Martha became the mistress of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset. Martha died of smallpox in January 1619/20 and she was buried in the Temples' parish church at Stowe. Her father built a magnificent marble monument to her that can still be seen in the “Penyston chapel” in Stowe church.
caption: The memorial to Sir Thomas' daughter Martha, in Stowe church
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