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Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (25 April 1628 – 27 January 1699) was an English statesman and essayist.

Temple married Dorothy Osborne, daughter of Sir Peter Osborne and Dorothy Danvers, in 1655.[10] It was a love marriage and the couple were noted for constancy during their long engagement: Dorothy resisted pressure from her family to accept any of several other more eligible suitors, including Henry Cromwell and her cousin Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds. She and William outlived all of their nine children, most of whom died in infancy; the suicide of their adult son John in 1689 was the greatest tragedy of their lives. There were two grandchildren. Dorothy died in 1695. After her death William's strong-minded sister Martha, Lady Giffard kept house for him. She had married Sir Thomas Giffard in 1662 and been widowed young; she spent many years with William and Dorothy for both of whom she had a deep affection. In her last years she wrote a short Life of her brother which was published anonymously after her death in 1722.