Colonel James Lethbridge Brooke Templer was an early British military pioneer of balloons. He was an officer in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Engineers. Templer set out a scientific foundation for British military ballooning. In particular, he worked out routines for balloon handling, how to use hydrogen in cylinders and methods for training observers.
- Occupation
- engineer, military personnel
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 27, 1846, 1847
- Died
- January 2, 1924
