William Templeton (other)
William Templeton may refer to: *William Templeton (mayor) (1853–1898), sixth mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada *William Templeton (screenwriter) (1913–1973), Scottish screenwriter and playwright *William Paterson Templeton (1876–1938), Scottish Unionist Party politician *Bill Templeton Thomas William Templeton (23 December 1927 – 20 May 2005) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hamilton to Donald Polson Templeton and Thelma Edith Nellie Nunn. He was a pharmaceutical chemist, and owned a business at Mordialloc f ...

William Templeton (Canadian Politician)
William Templeton (March 27, 1853 – January 16, 1898) was the sixth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving only one term in 1897. A butcher and grocer, he operated a grocery store in the first brick building in Vancouver. Templeton also was a member of the Vancouver City Council and school board and had once run unsuccessfully for the mayor's seat before being elected in 1897. He was defeated in the next election in January 1898 and died shortly after. He is commemorated with a street and school named in his honour. Early life and business Templeton was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1853. He came to Vancouver in January 1886, when the settlement was named Granville. Later that year, he entered the grocery business, building a store on the corner of Hastings and Carrall Streets. After the building was destroyed in a fire, also the same year, Templeton and his partner Joseph Northcott commissioned a new brick building to be built on the corner lot that they had just purc ...
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William Templeton (screenwriter)
William Pettigrew Templeton (7 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter who contributed a string of episodic dramas for American prime time television during the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s and 1960s. Early life At 20 Templeton wrote the one-act play ''The King's Spaniel'', which ran at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. In 1937, his first three-act play ''Circus Murder'', was picked up and produced by Jevan Brandon Thomas at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, then exported to London by the producer Esme Church for a run at the West End's Noël Coward Theatre (1938) under the title ''The Painted Smile''. Theatre critic W.A. Darlington of ''The Daily Telegraph'' called it a'' "cleverly created illusion."'' After being decommissioned from the RAF after World War II, Templeton wrote several West End plays in succession including: *(1946) ''Exercise Bowler'' (Arts then transferred to the Scala Theatre) produced by Alec Clunes *(1948) ''The ...
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William Templeton (British Politician)
William Paterson Templeton (8 November 1876 – 4 July 1938) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He contested Ross and Cromarty in 1911 and sat as Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1924 until 1929. He was unsuccessful in Glasgow Shettleston at a 1930 by-election, and sat for Coatbridge from 1931 until 1935. Sources * Who Was Who ''Who's Who'' is a reference work. It is a book, and also a CD-ROM and a website, giving information on influential people from around the world. Published annually as a book since 1849, it lists people who influence British life, according to i ... External links * 1876 births 1938 deaths Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates {{Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub ...
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