1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (died 1749)

Richard Temple

Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was a British army officer and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer under William III during the Williamite War in Ireland and during the Nine Years' War, he fought under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession. During the War of the Quadruple Alliance Temple led a force of 4,000 troops on a raid on the Spanish coastline which captured Vigo and Pontevedra for ten days. In Parliament he generally supported the Whigs but fell out with Sir Robert Walpole in 1733.