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Robert Temple

Biography


Birth: 1747
Death: 1783 in India

Son of William Temple (1710-1774), twice mayor of Berwick-upon-Tweed and Sarah Johnson (d. ca. 1747). Brother of William Johnson Temple. Robert was a Lieutenant on half-pay in the Royal Volunteers in 1762/3. He died in India in 1783.

Life with James Boswell

Boswell was introduced to Robert Temple on May 1, 1763. He thought him "a genteel, agreeable young man". They eventually came to share lodgings in the Inner Temple that same summer, following Boswells moving out of his rooms in Downings Street and William Temples going to Cambridge.

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Robert Temple is mentioned in:

  • London Journal 1762-1763

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During his stay in Berlin in 1764, Boswell lived in the house of Karl David Kircheisen, the president of the Berlin city council.

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