Freddy Temple

Who was Freddy Temple?

Frederick Stephen "Freddy" Temple was the Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury from 1973 until 1983.

Temple was born into a distinguished Ecclesiastical family on 24 November 1916 and educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1948 and was a curate in Newark and later Rector of St Agnes' Longsight and Dean of Hong Kong. He returned to England to be senior chaplain to the Geoffrey Fisher, then Archbishop of Canterbury. He was then Vicar of St Mary’s Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish of the city, and then Archdeacon of Malmesbury until his ordination to the episcopate. He retired in 1983 and died on 26 November 2000.