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James George John Templer, M.A [Obituary]

Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1883, Vol XV, p.65.

Prepared by Michael Steer

James George John Templar (1829–1883) was the son of Rev James Ackland Templer (1797–1866) by his wife Anne Mason, daughter of Bryant Mason. The Templer family home, Lindridge House, was a large 17th-century mansion (with 20th-century alterations), one of the finest in the south-west, situated about a mile south of Ideford in the parish of Bishopsteignton, and about 4 1/2 miles NE of Newton Abbot. It was destroyed by fire on 25 April 1963 and its ruins were finally demolished in the early 1990s, upon which was built a housing development. The gardens have been restored and are Grade II listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

ROGER WILLCOCKS was born at North Tawton, Devon, on July 6th, 1811. For the last thirty years of his life he lived at Teignmouth, and during the whole of that period his energy, sound judgment, and high character secured for him a leading position in all local undertakings of a public or charitable nature. The remembrance of his well-spent life will not soon fade in a neighbourhood for the welfare and prosperity of which he devoted many of his best days. He was elected a member of the Association on the occasion of its visit to Teignmouth, in July, 1874, and he manifested great interest in its proceedings, although he never contributed a paper.

Mr. Willcocks never thoroughly rallied from an attack of illness that seized him while attending a meeting of the Newton Abbot Board of Guardians, in August, 1876, though his death, which occurred on the 8th of December following, at his son's residence in Kensington, was unexpected by his family.

Two daughters and six sons survive him, and four of the latter are members of the Association.