| 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 | 
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File | |
| 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. | |