A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Templeman, John Weare
TEMPLEMAN. (Lieutenant, 1809. f-p., 16; h-p., 28.)
John Weare Templeman entered the Navy, in July, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spencer 74, Captain, afterwards Rear-Admiral, Hon. Robt. Stopford, with whom he continued to serve, in the same ship, and in the Caesar 80, until the summer of 1809. In the Spencer he visited Ferrol with Sir Edw. Pellew, accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and back in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain, fought in the action off St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806, made a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and took part in the operations of 1807 against Copenhagen. In the course of 1809 we find him, in the Caesar, present at the destruction of three French frigates beneath the batteries of Sable d’Olonne, at the attack made by Lord Cochrane on the shipping in Aix Roads, and, under Capt. Chas. Richardson, at the capture of Flushing. On his return from the Walcheren he was made Lieutenant, 4 Nov. 1809, into the Scipion 74, Capt. John Quilliam, lying at Plymouth. In that ship he remained but a few weeks. He was afterwards employed for some months at the Cape of Good Hope in the Actaeon brig and Boadicea frigate, both commanded by Lord Viscount Neville; and, from 1811 until 1819 in the Orlando 36, Capt. John Clavell, on the Mediterranean, North American, and East India stations. He has since been on half-pay.