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William Temple (logician)

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526:. Many of his innovations became features of the academic organisation of Dublin. By careful manipulation of the revenues of the college, he increased the number of fellows from four to sixteen, and the number of scholars from twenty-eight to seventy. The fellows he was the first to divide into two classes, making seven of them senior fellows, and nine of them junior. The general government of the institution he entrusted to the senior fellows. He instituted many other administrative offices, to each of which he allotted definite functions, and his scheme of college offices remained unchanged for many years. 805: 355:, whose acquaintance Temple had made while the earl was studying at Cambridge. Digby replied with great heat next year, and Temple retorted with a volume published under his name. This he again dedicated to his patron the Earl of Arundel, and he announced his identity with Mildapettus. He appended to the volume an elaborate epistle addressed to another Ramist, 613:
His Statutes at Trinity College, Dublin survived well into the 19th century, but he failed in his primary role of advancing the college aim of a Protestant seminary. He refused to encourage the Irish language within Trinity and regarded the destruction of the Irish language and culture as a necessary
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on 4 May 1622, and died at Trinity College Dublin, on 15 January 1627, being interned in the old college chapel (since pulled down). At the date of his death negotiations were begun for his resignation owing to 'his age and weakness' His will, dated 21 December 1626, is preserved in the public record
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Temple's contributions to the controversy attracted notice abroad, and this volume was reissued at Frankfort in 1584. Meanwhile, in 1582, Temple had concentrated his efforts on Piscator's writings, and he published in 1582 a second letter to Piscator with the latter's full reply.
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in the chapel. He insisted that as a layman he was entitled to dispense with that formality. Privately he was often in pecuniary difficulties, from which he sought to extricate himself by alienating the college estates to his wife and other relatives.
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He seems to have accompanied Essex to Ireland in 1599 and to have returned with him next year. When Essex was engaged in organising his rebellion in London in the winter of 1600–1, Temple was still in his service, but he protested in a letter to
1192: 670: 402:. This also came from Thomas's press at Cambridge: it was republished at Frankfort in 1589. In the same place there was issued in 1591 a severe criticism of both Martin's argument and Temple's preface by an Aristotelian, 335:'s most trusted confidant and intimate advisor, now became the unappreciated and maligned viceroy falling foul of the ageing queen. Both he and William Temple were ignominiously recalled to London that same autumn. 473:, written after Essex's arrest, that he was kept in complete ignorance of the plot. Temple's fortunes were prejudiced by Essex's fall: Sir Robert Cecil is said to have viewed him with marked disfavour. 815: 901: 516: 299:(1624), "he always laboured to fit his pupils for the true use of that art rather than for vain and idle speculations." He accepted with enthusiasm the logical methods and views of 522:
Temple proved himself an efficient administrator of both college and university, attempting to bring them into conformity at all points with the educational system in vogue at the
430:. He was with Sidney during his fatal illness in the autumn of the following year, and his master died in his arms (17 October 1586). Sidney left him by will an annuity of £30. 331:. While Essex campaigned around the country, Temple stayed behind in Dublin that summer relaying news of military deployment and successes to the Royal Court, Essex, once Queen 614:
prerequisite to defeating the native Irish way of life. This in effect meant that Trinity's newly educated Protestant clergy were ill-equipped and unwilling to minister in
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Gulielmi Tempelli Philosophy Cantabrigiensis Epistola de Dialecticis P. Rami ad Joannem Piscatorem Argentinensem una cum Joannis Piscatoris ad illam epistolam response
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In 1581, Temple had supplicated for incorporation as M.A. at Oxford, and soon afterward he left Cambridge to take up the office of master of the
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Consequently, despairing of success in political affairs, Temple turned anew to literary study. In 1605 he brought out, with a dedication to
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that same year. Though originally destined for the law, he became a tutor in logic at his college. "In his logic readings," wrote a pupil,
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was dedicated in 1584, and Sidney invited Temple to become his secretary in November 1585, when he was appointed governor of
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Francisci Mildapetti Navarreni ad Everardum Digbeium Anglum admonitio de unica P. Rami methodo reiectis caeteris retinenda
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His tenure in the office of provost was not altogether free from controversy. He defied the order of Archbishop
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from May 1616 to May 1617 seeking to induce the government to accept his proposals, but his efforts failed.
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On a personal level, his family dynasty flourished after his demise, particularly with the arrival of
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Temple was appointed a master in chancery at Dublin on 31 January 1609–10, and he was returned to the
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He drew up new statutes for both the college and the university, and endeavoured to obtain from
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P. Rami Dialecticae libri duo scholiis G. Tempelli Cantabrigiensis illustrati.
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Quaestionum Physicarum controversarum inter Peripateticos et Rameos Tractatus
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in a complete religious and cultural transformation of Irish society.
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Dublin University
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an annual ground rent of £40 for this property for almost 200 years.
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A Logicall Analysis of Twentye Select Psalmes performed by W. Temple
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man Anthony Temple, whose family name was said to descend from the
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Disputatio de prima simplicium et concretorum corporum generatione
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in April 1613. He represented that constituency until his death.
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In 1580, he replied in print to an attack on Ramus's position by
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Pro Mildapetti de unica Methodo Defensione contra Diplodophilum
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and became the most active champion of the Ramists in England.
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commentatio Gulielmi Tempelli e regio Collegio Cantabrigiensi.
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William Temple's first sight of Ireland came as he landed at
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family, was sole executrix. By her, Temple left two sons,
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English logician and Provost of Trinity College Dublin
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office at Dublin. He possessed much land in Ireland.
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from 1609 to 1627. He also served as a member of the
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a new charter, extending the privileges which Queen
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His descendants include 492:On 14 November 1609, Temple was made 96:9 May 1613 – 15 January 1627 7: 622:the Sixth's grand plan to eliminate 714: 498:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 1203:Provosts of Trinity College Dublin 911:Provosts of Trinity College Dublin 488:Provost of Trinity College, Dublin 443:Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 353:Philip Howard, 1st Earl of Arundel 14: 1213:17th-century English male writers 862:Provost of Trinity College Dublin 494:Provost of Trinity College Dublin 422:, to whom the edition of Ramus's 275:and passed with a scholarship to 271:was embraced. He was educated at 243:constituency from 1613 to 1627. 233:Provost of Trinity College Dublin 37:Provost of Trinity College Dublin 825:Dictionary of National Biography 803: 478:Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales 1198:People educated at Eton College 537:had granted in 1595. He was in 649:. The family continued to pay 583:Master of the Rolls in Ireland 1: 437:, the queen's secretary, and 398:, professor of philosophy at 1208:17th-century English writers 639:First Lords of the Admiralty 839:Sir William Temple's Essays 816:Temple, William (1555-1627) 675:A Cambridge Alumni Database 671:"Temple, William (TML573W)" 556:Temple was knighted by the 359:of Strasburg, professor at 255:in 1555. He was the son of 251:William Temple was born in 1229: 787:Printed in Temple Prime's 677:. University of Cambridge. 601:, and was a member of the 917: 868: 859: 851: 846: 766:The work bore the title, 753:This volume was entitled 277:King's College, Cambridge 222: 216:King's College, Cambridge 120: 89: 42: 30: 618:which made a mockery of 218:(B.A., 1578; M.A., 1581) 1112:Albert Joseph McConnell 524:University of Cambridge 558:Lord Deputy of Ireland 513:Irish House of Commons 390:, by a fellow Ramist, 372:Lincoln grammar school 289:Lincoln Grammar School 237:Irish House of Commons 171:Trinity College Chapel 1178:English MPs 1597–1598 1087:John Pentland Mahaffy 814:Lee, Sidney (1898). 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Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Henry Alvey
William Bedell
Member of Parliament
Dublin University
Leicester
Dublin
Trinity College Chapel
John
Eton College
Alma mater
King's College, Cambridge
Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Irish House of Commons
Dublin University
Leicester
Leicestershire
Knight Templars
Pope Clement V
Protestantism
Eton College
King's College, Cambridge
Lincoln Grammar School
Anthony Wotton
Petrus Ramus
Howth
Dublin
Robert Devereux
Earl of Essex
Anglo-Normans

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