Background
He was the eldest son and heir of James I Templer (1722–1782), of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, a self-made magnate who had made his fortune building dockyards.
He was the eldest son and heir of James I Templer (1722–1782), of Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, a self-made magnate who had made his fortune building dockyards.
This was completed in 1787, and his brother Review John Templer (1751-1832) of Lindridge House was the first rector of the church.
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. 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.
He died aged 65 on 21 June 1813, and is commemorated by a Coade stone monument in Teigngrace church.
