Robert Templeton (1802–92)

Irish naturalist and artist. Studied at the Belfast Academical Institute; studied medicine in Edinburgh. A keen entomologist and gifted illustrator. Assistant surgeon, Royal Artillery, ordnance medical department, 1833; travelled to Mauritius and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Rio de Janeiro, Malta, Corfu, and Albania. Stationed in Ceylon, 1839–52. Served in the Crimea; surgeon-major, 1855. Retired in 1860.