Life
1555-1627; 4th Provost of TCD; member of the Stowe family of Temples;
ed. Eton and King’s College, Cambridge; Fellow, 1578, incorporated
at Oxford, 1581; champion of Ramism; published tracts against followers
of Aristotle; annotated Ramus’s Dialectics (1584), ded. to
Sir Philip Sydney; master of Lincoln grammar school; and Sir Philip’s
secretary, 1585; with Sidney at his death, Zutphen 1586; secretary to
Earl of Essex; MP Tamsworth, 1597; career damaged by Essex’s fall;
appt. Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, 1609; initiated numerous college
reforms; Master of Chancery, 1619; MP for Dublin University, 1613; knighted
1622. DNB
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