 He was educated at Eton College from around 1689 to 1693 and was admitted at King's College, Cambridge in 1693.On 10 June 1703, he married Anne Houblon (1683 - 13 December 1735), the daughter of Abraham Houblon, a governor of the Bank of England.In 1715,Temple acceded to a place as joint chief remembrancer of the court of Exchequer for Ireland, for which he was granted the reversion as a child in 1680.