William Temple (1555-1627) was an English logician and Provost of Trinity College Dublin. He was the namesake of Dublin's Temple Bar neighborhood, where he settled in the early 1600s.
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William Tempel was born in Leicestershire, England in 1555, and he graduated from Cambridge in 1581 and became a tutor in logic at his college. In 1599, he became secretary to lord lieutenant Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, helping to suppress a major rebellion of the native Irish tribes by staying in Dublin and relaying news of military deployment and successes to Queen Elizabeth I of England as Essex campaigned around the country. In 1600, he and his patron returned to England, and he was kept ignorant of Essex's planned rebellion; however, Sir Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury distrusted Temple as a result of the failed rebellion. Temple turned to academia, becoming Provost of Trinity College Dublin in 1609 and serving as an Irish MP from 1613 until his death. Temple conformed Trinity College's education system with that of Cambridge, and he was knighted in 1622. He died in 1627.
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