# John Charles Templer

John Charles Templer (1814–1874) was an English barrister.

## Life

Born 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.
In a voter qualification case related to 1845, Temple is described as a special pleader, living with his wife in Greenwich. By 1847, he was serving in the Royal Navy, as evidenced by newspaper reports of his second son, John Harvey.
Templer became a close friend of James Brooke through his elder brother, James Lethbridge Templer (1811–1845), of the East India Company Merchant Navy. 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. John Templer and Brooke were corresponding by 1840. Templer acted as Brooke's legal counsel. He went on to support Brooke as an apologist, and asked Harriet Martineau for her advocacy.
In 1853, Templer was called to the bar, and from 1854, he was one of the Masters of the Court of Exchequer. 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. Templer took a 5% stake, and acted as the company's deputy chairman, also representing Brooke in London.

## Works

Templer edited three volumes of James Brooke's letters for publication in 1853. He also edited the Poems of his brother James Lethbridge, and published them in 1872.

## Family

Templer married Hannah Frances Gordon, elder daughter of Sir James Gordon RN, in 1842.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Templer Family History (accessed 24 April 2017)
* ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine. 1858. p. 194.
* 1 2 3 "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.
* 1 2 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.