TEMPLER, GEORGE, brother of John Templer (qv); b.; adm. 10 Oct 1768; KS (aged 15) 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1770 [check]; Writer, EICS Bengal 1773; Assistant Deputy Commissary-General 1774; Factor and Contractor for Elephants 1779; Commissioner for regulating the Price of Grain 1783; Senior Merchant 1784; returned to England 1785; partner, firm Edwards Smith Templer & Co., bankers, London, until the firm’s failure in 1817; MP Honiton 1790-6; returned to India 13 May 1817; Commercial Resident, Jangipur, from 1818; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. 5 Mar 1781 Jane, eldest dau. of Henry Paul, West Monckton, Somerset; d. in India 5 Jul 1819.
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