Robert Stanser Templeton (2 December 1855 – 5 November 1930) was an Anglo-Irish civil engineer and the 13th

Surveyor General of Ceylon Surveyor General of Sri Lanka is the head of Department of Survey of Sri Lanka. The post was established on 2 August 1800 with the formation of the Surveyor General's Department by a proclamation of Governor Frederick North at Galle. Joseph Jon ...

. He was appointed in 1910, succeeding

Philip David Warren Philip David Warren (c. 1851–?) was the 12th Surveyor General of Ceylon. Warren was educated at Norwich Grammar School Norwich School (formally King Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich) is a selective English independent day school in the ...

, and held the office until 1915. He was succeeded by W. C. S. Ingles. He was the son of naturalist Robert Templeton and grandson of botanist John Templeton.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Templeton, Robert Stanser Surveyors General of Ceylon 19th-century Irish engineers 20th-century Irish engineers 1855 births 1930 deaths