Of Stover House803
Name: James TEMPLER
Sex: M
Birth: 30 Apr 1722 in St. Mary Major, Exeter, Devon, England
Death: 4 Mar 1782 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Note: James Templer was an apprentice in Exeter in 1736 but ran away and joined a vessel at Plymouth bound for Madras, India. He returned to Devon a few years later, having made a considerable fortune, and joined a partnership with Henry Line and Thomas Palby to build docks for the Government at Plymouth. He married Mary Palby, daughter of Thomas Palby, in 1747. In 1765 he bought the 80,000 acre Stover estate near Newton Abbot (parish of Teigngrace), demolished the previous building, Stover Lodge, and between 1776 and 1781 built Stover House where he lived until his death in 1790. (His wife also died there, in 1784.) His eldest son, James, inherited the estate, along with granite mining rights on nearby Dartmoor. [Research by Stephen Coombes of Chudleigh, Devon, 2002]

Marriage 1 Mary PALBY
• Married: 1747
Children
1. James TEMPLER b: ABT 1748 in Newton Abbot, Devon, England
2. Charles Beckford TEMPLER b: ABT 1750
3. John TEMPLER b: 1751
4. Henry Line TEMPLER b: ABT 1765
5. George TEMPLER b: 1755
6. Ann TEMPLER b: 1758805