{{short description|British musician (1913–2008)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2016}} '''Nathan Temple''' (18 July 1913 – 30 May 2008)<ref name="Dead">[http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2008.html Thedeadrockstarsclub.com] - accessed May 2011</ref> was an English big band leader, and a clarinet and saxophone player.
Amongst many others, he worked with Syd Roy, Harry Roy, Geraldo, Ambrose, Joe Daniels, and Lew Stone.<ref name="Dead"/>
==Early life== He was born '''Nathan Tempelhoff''', the son of a tailor in Stepney, London.<ref name="Dead"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Index entry |url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=WLkhgMOG3Ygdotk3Qgt%2B6Q&scan=1 |accessdate=27 April 2026 |work=FreeBMD |publisher=ONS}}</ref>
== Career == Temple formed his own band in 1944, and worked with Benny Lee, Frankie Vaughan, Joy Nichols, Lita Roza, David Whitfield, Anne Shelton, Beryl Davis, Julie Andrews and The Keynotes.
After World War II, Temple worked with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly on ''Breakfast with Braden'', along with the BBC announcer, Ronald Fletcher. Temple's band also played on the radio show ''Music While You Work'' until 1983. On television, he provided the band for ''Crackerjack'' with Eamonn Andrews, as well as ''Nuts in May with Frankie Howerd'', ''The Time of Your Life with Noel Edmonds'', ''The Russell Harty Show'', ''Tune Times With Temple'', ''A Jolly Good Time'', ''Dance Music Through the Ages'' and ''Starstruck''.
Other people who worked with Temple included Eartha Kitt, Petula Clark, George Shearing, Larry Grayson, Fred Perry, Joyce Grenfell, Matt Monro, Kenneth Horne, Mel Tormé and Paul Daniels.<ref name="Dead"/>
==Personal life and death== Temple was married to Freda for over 62 years. She died on 5 June 2005. They had four daughters and six grandchildren.
He stopped playing live around 2004, and lived near Woking, Surrey.
Nat Temple died at home on 30 May 2008, aged 94.<ref name="Dead"/>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Full article donated by Lynda Temple (daughter), text reproduced by permission of Edmund Whitehouse of "Evergreen". Source: "Evergreen", Summer 2003, pages 32–36.
== External links == * [http://www.jfpd.co.uk/nattemple/nat01.htm Biography and funeral tributes at his son-in-law's website] * [http://www.shmuelbennachum.com/nattemple.htm Biography at www.shmuelbennachum.com] * [http://www.jfpd.co.uk/nattemple/nat01.htm Recordings, MP3s, downloadable]
=== Announcements === * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110809195052/http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/80725/temple-nat Announcement in ''The Times''] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110612014207/http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/20896/band-leader-temple-dies Announcement in ''The Stage'']
=== Obituaries === * [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2076382/Nat-Temple.html Obituary in ''The Daily Telegraph''] * [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jun/05/theatre.culture Obituary in ''The Guardian''] * [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nat-temple-clarinettist-and-bandleader-846275.html Obituary in ''The Independent''] * [https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4122158.ece Obituary in ''The Times''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523114225/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4122158.ece |date=23 May 2010 }} * [https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/nat-temple Obituary in ''The Stage'']
=== Others === * [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4166746.ece from Anthony Hacking, QC, in ''The Times'']{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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