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Author: Templeton, James

Biography:

TEMPLETON, James (fl 1795-1809)

Information about him can be gleaned from his books but no records have been located. He was almost certainly the son of Humphrey Templeton, a Dublin printer at 15 Mary Street, and his wife Abigail Kennedy. Humphrey Templeton printed Poems on Several Occasions and the preface to the 1809 Poems is dated from Mary Street. Templeton’s Poetical Epistle to Mrs. Graisberry, on the Sudden Death of her Daughter, Elizabeth Campbell (1795) is too short to be included in this bibliography but the poem addresses Mrs Graisberry as “aunt.” Mary Graisberry was the widow of Daniel Graisberry, printer; she ran the business until 1797 when her son Daniel and her son-in-law Richard Campbell took over. As Graisberry and Campbell they printed Templeton’s Poems and other works in this bibliography. Various contemporary newspaper notices indicate that James Templeton may have been an attorney. The subscription list to Poems includes Mary Leadbeater, Theophilus Swift, and Sydney Owenson (qq.v.). No other information has been located. (Saunders’s Newsletter 24 Sept. 1804; Hibernian Journal 2 Aug. 1776; Pollard)

 

Books written (2):

Dublin: [no publisher: printed "for the author" by Graisberry and Campbell], 1809