Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple
Hester Grenville, 1st Countess Temple, 2nd Viscountess Cobham was an English noblewoman.Life and family
She was the daughter of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Bt., of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and his wife, Mary Knapp.
Hester 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:
Her daughter, Hester, was the wife of William Pitt the Elder and mother of William Pitt the Younger, who both became prime minister.
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. Lord Cobham had excluded from succession his nephews Temple West and Gilbert West, and also his other sister Penelope.
