Talk:William Temple (bishop)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Only father-son pair of Archbishops?
Given the confusability between the two, I wonder if the Temples are the only father-son pair of Archbishops of Canterbury, or if they had predecessors (in which case the Temples would be the last instance) in this respect? Worth noting in the article.Cloptonson (talk) 09:14, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Normandy landings
I have deleted the mistaken claim added to this article in an edit on 26 Nov 2007 that: "A visit to Normandy during Operation Overlord in the summer of 1944 made Temple the first Archbishop of Canterbury to go into battle since the Middle Ages."

This claim has subsequently been repeated in derived wording on a number of other websites. The cited source by Max Hastings does not mention Temple, but p.257 does refer to "a future British Home Secretary, a moderator of the Church of Scotland and an Archbishop of Canterbury" going into action; this (future) archbishop was Robert Runcie, then a young Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, but the contributor may well have misunderstood. Temple's standard biography makes no mention of any such trip, and gives no indication the Archbishop ventured anywhere more dangerous or exotic than Croydon during these last few months of his life.

Elephenor (talk) 17:49, 22 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the deletion. I had serious doubts about the claim partly because the alleged visit is not in Iremonger and partly because Temple's gout and general ill health at the end of his life seemed to imply the the trip would not have been feasible; but, being unable to get hold of Hastings, did nothing. For the record, Temple's visit to Croydon coincided with the fall of several bombs in the immediate area (Iremonger p.618). Jpacobb (talk) 23:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

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Roald Dahl chapter in 'Boy'
This wiki article describes Temple as ill-suited to be headmaster at Repton, but only because his mind was on other matters. A chapter in Roald Dahl's autobiography 'Boy' describes him as a cruel man who Dahl could not imagine would be Archbishop. Dahl describes his violent behaviour as the reason he began to have doubts about religion. 82.132.184.148 (talk) 15:34, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Dahl says no such thing in Boy. Temple is not mentioned, which is not surprising as he left the staff of Repton fifteen years before Dahl went there.  Tim riley  talk   16:56, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

What 'Towards the Conversion of England' reveals
This report created following a request from the Church Assembly - the forerunner of General Synod - clearly evidences Temple's concern for evangelism, which this article totally fails to reflect. The report is available online https://archive.org/details/towardsconversio0000chur

Ender&#39;s Shadow Snr (talk) 11:26, 11 August 2022 (UTC)