Individual Details
William Force Templer
(5 Dec 1823 - 22 Jun 1893)
Unmarried
Alumni Register of Elizabeth College, Guernsey - "Elizabeth College Register 1824 - 1873 ; A chapter of Island History, by C.J. Durand" is the following entry:
Templer, William Force: born Weymouth, Dec. 15 1823; son of William Templer; left 1841;
No profession; a great invalid; an ardent naturalist; made some very valuable collections; died ?
I am a volunteer working with the natural history collections at Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. We have a collection of molluscs made by a W(illiam).F(orce). Templer, which was passed on to us from the Philpot Museum in Lyme Regis in 1979. The specimens, as well as being identified, are annotated and say where they were collected.
The Philpot Museum began in 1902. However, it is common for material to be passed on to museums some time after the demise of a collector. Philpot may still have archive records of donations or they may have been given to DCM and buried in an office somewhere. If it is one and the same WFT, the labels were written by him; like others working in that period many smaller specimens were stored in matchboxes, which are probably more valuable than the contents!
Dr Geoff Turnock
Team Leader, Natural History -25th April 2018
Alumni Register of Elizabeth College, Guernsey - "Elizabeth College Register 1824 - 1873 ; A chapter of Island History, by C.J. Durand" is the following entry:
Templer, William Force: born Weymouth, Dec. 15 1823; son of William Templer; left 1841;
No profession; a great invalid; an ardent naturalist; made some very valuable collections; died ?
I am a volunteer working with the natural history collections at Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. We have a collection of molluscs made by a W(illiam).F(orce). Templer, which was passed on to us from the Philpot Museum in Lyme Regis in 1979. The specimens, as well as being identified, are annotated and say where they were collected.
The Philpot Museum began in 1902. However, it is common for material to be passed on to museums some time after the demise of a collector. Philpot may still have archive records of donations or they may have been given to DCM and buried in an office somewhere. If it is one and the same WFT, the labels were written by him; like others working in that period many smaller specimens were stored in matchboxes, which are probably more valuable than the contents!
Dr Geoff Turnock
Team Leader, Natural History -25th April 2018
Events
| Birth | 5 Dec 1823 | Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Christen | 27 Jul 1824 | Clyst Honiton, Devon, England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Residence | 1841 | Age: 17 - Bradpole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Residence | 1849 | Held by his Trustees - Bridge Farm, Woodbury, Devon, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Residence | 1851 | Age: 26; RelationToHead: Son - Charmouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Residence | 1891 | Brislington House Asylum, Brislington, Somerset - Patient (Dementia) - Single - Aged 67 - Solicitor (Ret) | |||
| Death | 22 Jun 1893 | Ilfracombe, Devon, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Burial | 23 Jun 1893 | 8 Adelaide Terrace,, Ilfracombe, Devon, England, United Kingdom |
Families
| Father | William Henry Augustus Templer (1791 - 1832) |
| Mother | Anna Maria Prior (1782 - 1856) |
| Sibling | Caroline Barbara Templer (1821 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Harriet Elizabeth Templer (1825 - 1903) |