TEMPLE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Charles Henry Verelett Temple entered the Navy 12 Nov. 1830; passed his examination 4 Feb. 1838; and took part, as Mate of the Wellesley 72, Capt. Thos. Maitland, in the operations on the coast of China. At the period of his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 30 Dec. 1842, he was serving at Plymouth in the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir David Milne. From 29 April, 1843, until paid off at the close of 1847, he was employed on the East India station in the Castor 36, Capt. Chas. Graham. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
TEMPLE. (Vice-Admiral of the Blue, 1847.)
Francis Temple was educated at the Royal Naval College, and embarked, in 1786, as Midshipman, on board the Thisbe 28, Capts. Isaac Coffin and Sam. Hood. In that ship, in the Salisbury 50, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Milbanke, and in the Charon 44, Capt. Edm. Dodd, he was employed on the coasts of North America and Africa until made Lieutenant, 8 Oct. 1793, into the Recourse, Capts. Thos. Hamilton and Jas. Ross, on the West India station, whence he invalided in 1794. During the remainder of the war he served at Spithead, at Halifax, and in the Channel and Mediterranean, in the Prince 98, Capt. Parry, Bonetta sloop, Capts. Jas. Wemyss and John Tremayne Rodd, Resolution 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Murray, Juste 80, Capts. Wm. Hancock Kelly and Thos. Pakenham, Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Sir John Orde, and Nymphe 36, Capts. Percy Fraser and Jas. Douglas. He joined next, 1 Nov. 1802, the Loire 38, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland; and on the night of 27 June, 1803, he boarded and carried, with two of the boats belonging to that frigate, Le Venteux, a French national brig mounting 4 long 18-pounders and 6 36-pounder brass carronades, with a complement of 82 men. This, one of those brilliant exploits which, in the words of Capt. Maitland, add lustre to the British arms, was achieved after a desperate conflict of 10 minutes, fought under the batteries of Ile de Bas, in the course whereof the enemy sustained a loss of 3 men killed and 13 wounded, and the British of 6 wounded. As a reward for his valorous conduct Mr. Temple was promoted, 4 July following, to the command of the Tartarus bomb, off Boulogne, and was presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword valued at 50l, He removed, we believe, in June, 1804, to the Hound bomb; served, from 16 Dec. in the same year until 21 Sept. 1805, as Acting-Captain and Captain (commission dated 12 March, 1805) in the Theseus 74, in the West Indies; and held command, from Aug. 1812 until Feb. 1813, of the Armide 38, in the Channel. He was placed on the Retired List of Rear-Admirals 10 Jan. 1837; was transferred to the Active List 17 Aug. 1840; and advanced to his present rank 21 Dec. 1847.
Vice-Admiral Temple married, in 1815, Susan, youngest daughter of the late Geo. Warren, Esq., of Penpool, co. Cornwall, and has issue.
TEMPLE. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Temple is son of Jas. Temple, Esq., late proprietor and conductor of an eminent educational establishment at St. Margarets, co. Kent.
This officer entered the Navy, 19 Sept. 1828; passed his examination 18 Sept. 1834; served for some time as Mate in the Racer 16, Capt. Thos. Harvey, and Winchester 50, Capt. Thos. Wren Carter, on the North America and West India station; and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant , 23 Nov. 1841. His next appointments were – 10 March, 1842, and 23 April, 1844, to the Queen 110 and Formidable 84, flag-ships of Sir Edw. W. C. It. Oweu in the Mediterranean, whence he returned at the close of 1845 – 14 Feb. 1846, as Senior, to the Ferret 8, Capt. Geo. Sprigg, fitting for the coast of Africa – and 20 July following, to the Actaeon 26, Capt. Geo. Mansel, with whom he served on the station last named as Second and First Lieutenant until paid off on his return to England in 1848.
TEMPLE. (Lieut., 1814. f.p., 10; h-p., 32.)
Henry Edward Temple, born 6 Aug. 1792, is son of Henry Temple, Esq., of Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Dictator 64, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, under whom he was for more than six years employed, the greater part of the time in the capacities of Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the same ship and in the Edgar and Berwick 74’s, on the North Sea and Baltic stations. While attached to the Edgar he saw much boat-service, and had command, in Aug. 1808, of a gun-boat at the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish General the Marquis de la Romana and his patriot army; whom, on being transferred to a prize taken on the occasion, he assisted in conveying as far as Gottenborg. In the Berwick, in which ship he continued to serve under Capts. Sir Robt. Laurie and Edw. Brace until he invalided home in Feb. 1813 on borad the Blake 74, Capt. Edw. Codrington, he was present, 25 March, 1811, at the self-destruction, near Cherbourg, of the French 40-gun frigate L’Amazone. In June, 1813, at the recommendation of Capt. Macnamara, he was received by Capt. John Phillimore on board the Eurotas of 46 guns and 320 men; and in that ship, after witnessing the capture of La Trave French frigate, he took part, 25 Feb. 1814, in a destructive action of two hours and ten minutes with La Clorinde, mounting 44 guns and 12 brass swivels, with a complement of 360 picked men, of whom 120 were killed and wounded, with a loss to the British of 20 slain and 40 wounded. Although the junior passed Midshipman present was at once advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, Mr. Temple, who was the senior one,[1] was sent on promotion to the West Indies; where (a few weeks after he had joined the Shark sloop, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Brown at Port-Royal, Jamaica) he was nominated, 26 July in the same year, Acting-Lieutenant of the Sapphire, Capt. Adam Brown. He was confirmed to that vessel 26 Sept. following, and remained in her until paid off in Sept. 1815. He has not been since afloat. It may be added that while serving in the Eurotas, he boarded in a boat manned with volunteers and retook, during a gale of wind, the Avon West Indiaman, a prize to the True-blooded Yankee American privateer, and in the act at the time of going into Ushant. He was sent with his trophy to Plymouth. On another occasion the Eurotas chased three French frigates a distance of 450 miles.
TEMPLEMAN. (Lieutenant, 1809. f-p., 16; h-p., 28.)
John Weare Templeman entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spencer 74, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, Hon. Robt. Stopford, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the Caesar 80, until the summer of 1809. In the Spencer he visited Ferrol with Sir Edw. Pellew, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, fought in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, made a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and took part in the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen. In the course of 1809 we find him, in the Caesar, present at the destruction of three French frigates beneath the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, at the attack made by Lord Cochrane on the shipping in Aix Roads, and, under Capt. Chas. Richardson, at the capture of Flushing. On his return from the Walcheren he was made Lieutenant, 4 Nov. 1809, into the Scipion 74, Capt. John Quilliam, lying at Plymouth. In that ship he remained but a few weeks. He was afterwards employed for some months at the Cape of Good Hope in the Actaeon brig and Boadicea frigate, both commanded by Lord Viscount Neville;
- ↑ He had passed his examination 16 Sept. 1811.
