William Templeman

Captain William Henry Templeman (18 July 1883 - 11 March 1919) was an English chemist and munitions expert, army officer and solicitor in England and lawyer and patent agent in Australia. born on 18 July 1883 at Kingston upon Hull.

In 1901, Templeman passed Intermediate BSc, University of London. He first studied for Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge in 1902 having been admitted on 22 February 1902. In 1907, he won the McMahon Law Scholarship (£150 for 4 years). He graduated with LLB on 23 June 1908 and was approved for LLM on 13 March 1915, on the strength of a dissertation entitled ‘Equitable assignments’.

The census for 2 April 1911 shows him at home at Fountain Street, Hull, with his parents, aunt, Isabella Cuthbertson; cousin, Elizabeth Morris Cuthbertson; and a maid, Ruby Elizabeth Wallace. William's occupation is a solicitor on his own account. He was elected a member of Hull Incorporated Law Society on 21 April 1911.

In 1914, he was employed by the Department of Explosives Supply, Ministry of Munitions, and he worked at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills; HM Factory, Queensferry; and later at HM Factory, Gretna.

On 8 July 1915, he was admitted as a practitioner to the Supreme Court of Tasmania, intending to practice as both a lawyer and a patent agent; having practiced as a solicitor in England for four years,

In May, 1917, he moved to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for duties connected with inspection of ammunition. He was promoted to acting captain on 17 September 1917 .

In late 1918, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of Chemistry He was also a Fellow of the Chemical Society and a member of the Society of Chemical Industry. His rank of acting captain was relinquished on 8 February 1919. He died at Tonbridge, Kent, England on 11 March 1919 due to pneumonic influenza.