 Temple's son, Cliff Temple, was a leading UK athletics journalist, writer, commentator, and coach; and his daughter, Anne Patrizio MBE is well known in the UK as a campaigner for the rights of LGBT people and their parents.His best-known work might be the novel which formed the basis for the film "Four Sided Triangle", a 1949 novel which Groff Conklin called "brilliantly charactered and humanly real".P.