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![]() William Cowper-Temple
William Francis Cowper-Temple was the Barron of Mount Temple at Broadlands in Southern England. He held many and various political positions throughout his life and indeed came from a very political family, his stepfather, Lord Palmerston, having been Prime Minster twice and his uncle Lord Melbourne once. One of the oddities of George MacDonald's life was how he managed to maintain close friendships with people who had a dislike, or even a grudge, toward one another. He was friends with both John Ruskin and F.D. Maurice, although Ruskin disliked everything about Maurice, even referring to one of his books of written sermons as among the worst he had encountered, but praising MacDonald's 1st volume of Unspoken Sermons as the best he had ever read. MacDonald also had the friendship of both Lady Byron (widow of poet, Lord Byron) and Cowper-Temple even though Lord Byron had a well publicized affair with the wife of Cowper-Temple's uncle, Lord Melbourne many years earlier. Lady Byron had been separated from her late husband after only one year of marriage however, largely due to his many (and sometimes strangely perverted) infidelities, so Cowper may have actually felt some sympathy for her. Still, there was most likely a certain amount of awkwardness between the two of them.
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