John Charles Templer (1814–1874) was an English barrister.[1]
Life
editBorn in Bridport, he was the son of James Templer (1787–1858), a lawyer, and his wife Catharine Lethbridge. He was educated at Westminster School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1832, graduating with a B.A. in 1836. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1837.[2][3]
In a voter qualification case related to 1845, Temple is described as a special pleader, living with his wife in Greenwich.[4] By 1847, he was serving in the Royal Navy, as evidenced by newspaper reports of his second son, John Harvey. [5][6]
Templer became a close friend of James Brooke through his elder brother, James Lethbridge Templer (1811–1845), of the East India Company Merchant Navy.[7][8] James Templer commanded the Minerva (Bombay, 1812) on a tea voyage to China in 1835–6, for his uncle Henry Templer who was its recent owner, and Brooke came on the journey.[9] John Templer and Brooke were corresponding by 1840.[10] Templer acted as Brooke's legal counsel.[11] He went on to support Brooke as an apologist,[12] and asked Harriet Martineau for her advocacy.[13]
In 1853, Templer was called to the bar, and from 1854, he was one of the Masters of the Court of Exchequer.[3] He was also one of the founding directors of the Borneo Company in 1856. The company's initial finance was largely from directors and staff of W. R. Paterson & Co., with Robert Henderson.[14] Templer took a 5% stake, and acted as the company's deputy chairman, also representing Brooke in London.[15]
Works
editTempler edited three volumes of James Brooke's letters for publication in 1853.[7] He also edited the Poems of his brother James Lethbridge, and published them in 1872.[16]
Family
editTempler married Hannah Frances Gordon, elder daughter of Sir James Gordon RN, in 1842.[3]
Footnotes
edit- ^ Templer Family History (accessed 24 April 2017)
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. 1858. p. 194.
- ^ a b c "Templer, John Charles (TMLR832JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law. Vol. LVII. 1852. p. 55.
- ^ "Births". Evening Mail. 12 November 1847. p. 8.
- ^ "Templer, John Harvey (TMLR866JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b The private letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak: narrating the events of his life, from 1838 to the present time
- ^ Charterhouse Register 1769-1872. Phillimore. 1974. p. 369.
- ^ Templer, James Lethbridge (1872). Poems. p. 12.
- ^ Tagge, Anne (1996). "The Butterfly Hunters". Conradiana. 28 (3): 188. JSTOR 24634965.
- ^ Logan, Deborah; Sanders, Valerie (24 March 2021). The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau Vol 5. p. 362. ISBN 9781000419795.
- ^ Baring-Gould, Sabine (28 April 2021). Delphi Collected Works of Sabine Baring-Gould (Illustrated). ISBN 9781913487539.
- ^ Logan, Deborah A. (22 April 2016). Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission. ISBN 9781317123644.
- ^ Jones, Stephanie (1986). Two Centuries Of Overseas Trading. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 20. ISBN 9781349073788.
- ^ Cox, Howard; Metcalfe, Stuart (1998). "The Borneo company limited: origins of a nineteenth-century networked multinational". Asia Pacific Business Review. 4 (4): 10. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.572.7042. doi:10.1080/13602389812331288294.
- ^ Templer, James Lethbridge (1872). Poems.