Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple

Hester Temple, 1st Countess Temple, 2nd Viscountess Cobham (c. 1690 – 1752) was an English noblewoman.

She was the daughter (and eventual co-heir) of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Bt. (1634–1697), of Stowe, Buckinghamshire.^[1] She married Richard Grenville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire on 25 November 1710, and became the mother of five sons, all of whom served as members of parliament

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779), MP
George Grenville (1712-1770), MP, who was prime minister of the UK from 1763 to 1765. He married Elizabeth Wyndham and had children. (George's son, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, also became a prime minister of the UK.)
James Grenville (1715-1783), MP, who served as a minister under his brother-in-law William Pitt the Younger. He married Mary Smyth and had children.
Henry Grenville (1717-1784), MP, who married Margaret Eleanor Banks and had children
Thomas Grenville (1719-1747), MP, a Royal Navy officer, who died at sea, aged 28, unmarried

Her daughter, Hester (1720-1803), was the wife of William Pitt the Elder and mother of Pitt the Younger, both prime ministers of the United Kingdom.^[2]

Hester was the sister of Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, whose title she inherited under a special remainder in 1749; on 18 October of the same year, her husband being long dead, she was created 1st Countess Temple.^[3] Cobham had excluded from succession Temple West and Gilbert West, his nephews who were sons of Richard West and his elder sister Maria; and also his other sister Penelope.^[4]

References

↑ Larsen, Ruth M. "Pitt, Hester". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/89688. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Larsen, Ruth M. - Pitt (née Grenville), Hester, countess of Chatham and suo jure Baroness Chatham (1720–1803), political wife - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
↑ The Complete Peerage, Volume 12, part one, page 658.
↑ Kilburn, Matthew. "Temple, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27119. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Countess Temple 1749 – 1752	Succeeded by Richard Grenville-Temple
Preceded by Richard Temple	Viscountess Cobham 1749 – 1752	Succeeded by Richard Grenville-Temple

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[1] Larsen, Ruth M. "Pitt, Hester". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/89688. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Larsen, Ruth M. - Pitt (née Grenville), Hester, countess of Chatham and suo jure Baroness Chatham (1720–1803), political wife - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[3] The Complete Peerage, Volume 12, part one, page 658.

[4] Kilburn, Matthew. "Temple, Richard". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27119. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)