William Johnson Temple

(1739-1796)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Temple, William Johnston, 1739-1796 NRA: Temple William Johnson (1739-1796) essayist DNB: Temple, William Johnson (bap. 1739, d. 1796), Church of England clergyman and essayist LBT ID: WiTempl1796 VIAF ID: 71558154 LOC ID: nr93038669	B/BAP: 1739-12-20 DIED: 1796-08-13
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Rector of St Gluvias in Cornwall; educated at Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge he was a lifelong correspondent of James Boswell and a memoirist of Thomas Gray.
REFERENCES TO William Johnson Temple: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 4