James Templer (British Army officer, born 1936)

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Major-General '''James Robert Templer''', [[Order of the Bath|CB]], [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (8 January 1936 – 14 December 2023) was a [[British Army]] officer and [[equestrianism|equestrian]].<ref>{{cite web |title=James Templer |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/12834 |website=Olympedia |access-date=21 December 2023}}</ref>

Educated at [[Charterhouse School|Charterhouse]] and [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst|Sandhurst]], Templer was commissioned into the [[Royal Artillery]] in 1955 and became [[Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff]].

He won the European 3-Day Championship at Burghley in 1962, the International Trials at Munich in 1963 and Badminton in 1964.<ref name="Times">{{cite news |title=Major General James Templer obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/major-general-james-templer-tj56cscck |access-date=30 January 2024 |work=[[The Times]] |date=30 January 2024}}</ref>

Templer competed in [[Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics|two events]] at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] on a horse called M’Lord Connolly.<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/james-templer-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035913/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/te/james-templer-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=James Templer Olympic Results |accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref>

Templer died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on 14 December 2023, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |title=Major General James Robert Templer CB OBE |url=https://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/marketplace/advert/templer-notices_54929 |access-date=21 December 2023 |publisher=The Telegraph |date=21 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="Times"/>

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