# Nat Temple > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nat_Temple > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nat_Temple.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Temple > Source revision: 1352614137 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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)[http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2008.html Thedeadrockstarsclub.com] - accessed May 2011 was an English [big band](/source/big_band) [leader](/source/bandleader), and a [clarinet](/source/clarinet) and [saxophone](/source/saxophone) player. Amongst many others, he worked with Syd Roy, [Harry Roy](/source/Harry_Roy), [Geraldo](/source/Geraldo_(bandleader)), [Ambrose](/source/Ambrose_(bandleader)), [Joe Daniels](/source/Joe_Daniels_(jazz_drummer)), and [Lew Stone](/source/Lew_Stone). ==Early life== He was born '''Nathan Tempelhoff''', the son of a [tailor](/source/tailor) in [Stepney](/source/Stepney), London.{{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}} == Career == Temple formed his own band in 1944, and worked with [Benny Lee](/source/Benny_Lee), [Frankie Vaughan](/source/Frankie_Vaughan), [Joy Nichols](/source/Joy_Nichols), [Lita Roza](/source/Lita_Roza), [David Whitfield](/source/David_Whitfield), [Anne Shelton](/source/Anne_Shelton_(singer)), [Beryl Davis](/source/Beryl_Davis), [Julie Andrews](/source/Julie_Andrews) and The Keynotes. After World War II, Temple worked with [Bernard Braden](/source/Bernard_Braden) and [Barbara Kelly](/source/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](/source/Music_While_You_Work)'' until 1983. On television, he provided the band for ''[Crackerjack](/source/Crackerjack_(TV_series))'' with [Eamonn Andrews](/source/Eamonn_Andrews), as well as ''[Nuts in May with Frankie Howerd](/source/Frankie_Howerd)'', ''[The Time of Your Life with Noel Edmonds](/source/Noel_Edmonds)'', ''[The Russell Harty Show](/source/Russell_Harty)'', ''Tune Times With Temple'', ''A Jolly Good Time'', ''Dance Music Through the Ages'' and ''Starstruck''. Other people who worked with Temple included [Eartha Kitt](/source/Eartha_Kitt), [Petula Clark](/source/Petula_Clark), [George Shearing](/source/George_Shearing), [Larry Grayson](/source/Larry_Grayson), [Fred Perry](/source/Fred_Perry), [Joyce Grenfell](/source/Joyce_Grenfell), [Matt Monro](/source/Matt_Monro), [Kenneth Horne](/source/Kenneth_Horne), [Mel Tormé](/source/Mel_Torm%C3%A9) and [Paul Daniels](/source/Paul_Daniels). ==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](/source/Woking), [Surrey](/source/Surrey). Nat Temple died at home on 30 May 2008, aged 94. ==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}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Temple, Nat}} Category:1913 births Category:2008 deaths Category:20th-century English male musicians Category:21st-century English male musicians Category:20th-century British clarinetists Category:21st-century British clarinetists Category:20th-century English saxophonists Category:21st-century English saxophonists Category:British big band bandleaders Category:English jazz bandleaders Category:English jazz clarinetists Category:English jazz saxophonists Category:20th-century English Jews Category:21st-century English Jews Category:Musicians from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Category:People from Stepney --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nat Temple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Temple) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Temple?action=history)). 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