Elżbieta Temple

Her life partner in England was Dick Temple. She survived his death in a car accident and passed away on Feb. 5, 1988. She and her mother rest in one grave in the cemetery of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Eynsham.

In England in 1966 she received her B.A. degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and in 1972 a Ph.D. degree from the University of London under the supervision of Christopher Hohler. Later on she moved to Eynsham and worked for over 20 years in the Duke Humfrey’s Library of the University of Oxford.

In 1927 Elzbieta finished her secondary education at a school run by the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Nowy Sącz. She was admitted to the College of Fine Art in Cracow yet she had to quit due to health reasons. In 1928/29 she took a course at the School of Painting and Drawing in Warsaw. In the period of 1929-37 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1930 she married Jan Klewin, later a Warsaw architect. Around 1935 she created a large sgraffito at the residential building, Madalińskiego St. 80 in Warsaw, where she and her husband lived at that time. Today, under the freshly renovated work, a plaque recognizes the work of Elżbieta Malcz-Klewin. In the first days of World War II, Temple and her mother fled to England via Sweden.

Elżbieta Temple (July 8, 1909 – February 5, 1988), properly Elżbieta Klewin née Malcz, was a scholar and writer specialising in the field of illuminated manuscripts who produced two books, the second co-authored with J. J. G. Alexander.

Temple was born in Olszowa, Poland in 1909. Her father Boleslaw Malcz (1873 - 1927) was a landowner and social activist. Her mother was Zofia née Moszyńska (1884 - 1964). She had two brothers Stanisław and Zbigniew.