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Templer (other)
Templer is an English surname, and may refer to: *Bernhard Templer (1865–1935), Austrian Jewish theologian * Cherie Templer (1856–1915), New Zealand painter * George Templer (1781–1843), builder of the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England * Field Marshal Sir Gerald (Walter Robert) Templer (1898-1979), British Army officer who fought in WWI and WWII * James Templer (1722–1782), a British civil engineer *James Templer (canal builder) (1748–1813), builder of the Stover Canal, Devon, England * James Templer (balloon aviator) (1846–1924), early British military pioneer of balloons *John Charles Templer (1814–1874), British lawyer *Karl Templer (fl. 1994–2009), British-born New York-based fashion stylist *Pamela Templer, American ecosystem ecologist *Simon and Peggy Templer (1910s–1990s), British couple dedicated to rescuing mistreated chimpanzees in Spain See also * Templer (other) Templer is an English surname. Templer may also refer to: * Detective Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Templer
Bernhard Templer (; May 1, 1865 – August 22, 1935) was a Austro-Galician Jewish theologian. Biograhpy Templer was born in Briegel, Galicia (now Brzesko, Poland) to Rabbi Marcus Templer. At the age of fifteen he began contributing articles to various Hebrew periodicals, and two years later he published his ''Dover tov'' (Lemberg, 1882), novellæ and commentaries on obscure Talmudic passages. He was educated at the University of Vienna, the Vienna Bet ha-Midrash, and at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, where he received rabbinical ordination at the age of 18. Templer went on to work as a rabbi in Mährisch Aussee, Mährisch Schönberg, and Vienna. He served as a military rabbi during World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherie Templer
Cherie Templer (née Connell, 1856–1915) was a New Zealand painter. Her work is held in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand. Biography Templer was born in Auckland in 1856, to William Connell and Isabella Connell (née Ridings). Her parents had migrated to New Zealand on the ship ''London'' in 1840. From the 1870s to the 1890s Templer painted scenes from around the Auckland region, including Devonport, Waiheke Island and the Waitākere Ranges The Waitākere Ranges is a mountain range in New Zealand. Located in West Auckland between metropolitan Auckland and the Tasman Sea, the ranges and its foothills and coasts comprise some of public and private land. The area, traditionally kno .... Her paintings show the houses and camps of the white settlers who were moving into the region at the time. In 1884 she married Francis Henry Templer; they had one son, Harold Edward. The couple later moved to England to live. Templer died in Surrey, England in 1915. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Templer
George Templer (1781 – 12 December 1843) was a landowner in Devon, England, and the builder of the Haytor Granite Tramway. His father was the second James Templer (1748–1813) who had built the Stover Canal. He inherited the Stover estate in Teigngrace, Devon on the death of his father, but left its running to his lawyer, preferring to spend his time hunting, writing poetry, and in amateur dramatics. He lived with a mistress and had six children by her before running into financial difficulties and selling his entire estate to the Duke of Somerset. He later built himself a house on the outskirts of Newton Abbot and married the daughter of Sir John Kennaway in 1835. He died in 1843 after a hunting accident. Personal life George Templer was born in 1781, the eldest son of the second James Templer. He was educated at Westminster, and inherited the Stover estate on his father's death in 1813. Noted for his kindness, his hospitality and for his lavish lifestyle, his interests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Templer
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, (11 September 1898 – 25 October 1979) was a senior British Army officer. He fought in both the world wars and took part in the crushing of the Arab Revolt in Palestine. As Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army between 1955 to 1958, Templar was Prime Minister Anthony Eden's chief military adviser during the Suez Crisis. He is also credited as a founder of the United Kingdom's National Army Museum. Templer is best known for implementing strategies that heavily contributed to the defeat of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) during the Malayan Emergency. Some historians have described his methods as a successful example of a "hearts and minds" campaign, while other scholars have dismissed this as a myth due to his over-reliance on population control and coercion. Templer also oversaw and personally approved of many controversial policies and numerous atrocities committed by his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Templer (1722–1782)
James Templer (1722–1782) of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, was a self-made magnate, a civil engineer who made his fortune building dockyards. Biography He was born in Exeter of a humble family, the son of Thomas Templer a brazier, and was orphaned young whereupon his elder brother apprenticed him to John Bickley, a carpenter or architect of Exeter. He broke his indenture and set off for India where he made a fortune, either from government building contracts or possibly from dealing in silver bullion, before returning to England aged 23. He settled at Rotherhithe, Kent, where he obtained a government contract to re-build the dockyard with his partners John Line and Thomas Parlby (1727–1802), whose sister Mary Parlby became his wife. In about 1760 he and his partners obtained the contract to rebuild Plymouth docks, for which he used granite from Haytor, and moved to Devon. Templer and Parlby also built the Royal Marine Barracks, Stonehouse, Plymouth between 1779 and 1785 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Templer (canal Builder)
James Templer (1748–1813) of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, was a Devon landowner and the builder of the Stover Canal. Biography He was the eldest son and heir of James Templer (1722–1782), of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, a self-made magnate who had made his fortune building dockyards. Templer was a Master in the Crown Office at London. He inherited the Stover estate in 1782, and began construction of a new church at Teigngrace, built in the local granite from quarries at Hay Tor. This was completed in 1787, and his brother Rev. John Templer (1751–1832) of Lindridge House was the first rector of the church. The mining of ball clay in the area had begun to rapidly expand, and from 1790 Templer built the Stover Canal at his own expense to transport clay to cellars on the banks of the River Teign, for onward transportation by barge down the river estuary to the port of Teignmouth on the coast. In 1776 he married Mary Buller (1749–1829), third daughter of James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Templer (balloon Aviator)
Colonel James Lethbridge Brooke Templer (27 May 1846 – 2 January 1924) was an early British military pioneer of balloons. He was an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers. Templer set out a scientific foundation for British military ballooning. In particular, he worked out routines for balloon handling, how to use hydrogen in cylinders and methods for training observers. Biography James Templer was the son of John Templer. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. Whilst serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps Templer became interested in military ballooning. In 1878 Captain Templer and Captain C M Watson started the first regular British Army balloon school at Woolwich. The school was started with Templer's own balloon, the ''Crusader''. At the same time, Templer was appointed Instructor in Ballooning to the Royal Engineers. The following year Captain Templer took command of the newly established military balloon department at Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in B.A. 1836. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1837. In a voter qualification case relating to 1845, Temple is described as a special pleader, living with his wife in Greenwich. On the evidence of newspaper reports of Templer's second son (John Harvey) in 1847, he was at that time in the Royal Navy. 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 le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Templer
Karl Templer is a British-born New York-based fashion stylist. He is creative director of Interview and his work has appeared in publications internationally including Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, W, and The New York Times. Templer has styled brand campaigns and shows for designers including Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, Sacai and Valentino, and collaborates frequently with photographers Fabien Baron, David Sims, Craig McDean, Steven Meisel. Life and career Early life Templer’s first job was at the Covent Garden store Woodhouse, which in the late 80s was breaking ground in men’s fashion. His interest in clothes and popular-culture led him to shooting tests with emerging London photographers. The photos would be featured in Nick Logan’s magazine The Face. Fashion career Arena Homme + launched in 1994 and Templer was made an editor for the title – later becoming creative director. It was during this time he started working with Mikael Jansson and styling womenswear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Templer
Pamela H. Templer is an ecosystem ecologist and professor at Boston University who focuses on plant-microbial interaction and their effect on carbon exchange and nutrient cycling. She is also interested in examining how urban ecosystems function, how human actions influence nutrient cycling, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, and other ecosystem processes. Early life and education Templer was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended Grover Cleveland Humanities Magnet High School. In college, she was a music major at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Templer soon realized that she did not want to pursue a career in music and when looking into other fields, spent a semester in a "Natural History of California" class, where she backpacked through California, while learning about ecosystem management. This class sparked her interest in ecology and led her to spend the summer class at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (New York), where she learned how t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon And Peggy Templer
The late Simon and Peggy Templer were a British couple who lived in Spain, where they dedicated their later lives to rescuing mistreated chimpanzees used by photographers on beach resorts. Spain had become a focus of the trade in chimpanzees for the tourist industry, and these apes would be severely abused. Simon and his wife Peggy took on the role of persuading the Spanish authorities (Guardia Civil) to confiscate the chimps and provide them a more safe environment. Early years Simon was born in England in 1913 and spent much of his childhood in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). His first names were actually Basil Henry Francis, but Peggy took to calling him Simon after the fictional character, and called him this until the end of his life. His family returned to the UK in 1924 when he was ten years old after his father had died. He was one of six children, two boys and four girls. His mother lived in Hammersmith, London, until she died. Peggy was born in 1920 in Liverpool. Her father was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Templer (other)
Templer is an English surname. Templer may also refer to: * Detective Chief Superintendent Gill Templer, a character in the TV series ''Inspector Rebus'' * RMAS Colonel Templer (A229), an acoustic research vessel of the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service * Templer Medal, awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research, United Kingdom * Templer Park, a forest reserve in Rawang, Malaysia * Gerald Templer, a British army officer See also * Templers (Pietist sect) The German Templer Society emerged in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, with its roots in the Pietist movement of the Lutheran Church, and in its history a legacy of preceding centuries during which various Christian groups undertook to ... * Templar (other) * Templer, an English surname {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
