John Marks Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton, Sr. (born November 29, 1912 in Winchester , Tennessee , USA, † July 8, 2008 in Nassau , Bahamas ) was a British entrepreneur and fund manager.
John Templeton attended Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1934 . In 1954 he founded the Templeton Growth Fund, Inc., one of the world's largest investment funds in terms of fixed assets . He sold the associated investment company to the Franklin Templeton Investments Group in 1992 for $ 440 million .
John Templeton was the founder of the Templeton Prize, awarded annually since 1973, and the John Templeton Foundation . In 1987 Templeton was awarded a Knight Bachelor degree . He died of complications from pneumonia in 2008 at the age of 95. The John Templeton Foundation was directed by his son John M. Templeton, Jr. from 1995 until his death in 2015.
Another award named after John Templeton is the Templeton Freedom Award , which the Atlas Network , a foundation that promotes neoliberal politics, has presented annually since 2004.
John Templeton was a British citizen and spent his retirement years in Nassau, Bahamas. His son (and the firstborn of three Templeton's children) was the philanthropist John Marks Templeton, Jr. (1940-2015).
Web links
- Literature by and about John Marks Templeton in the catalog of the German National Library
- John Templeton Foundation (English)
- The company's website (English)
- Franklin Templeton Investment Services GmbH (Germany)
- Milestones in the life of Sir John Templeton , templetonpress.org (English)
- "Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, this at 95" , New York Times , July 9, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ manager magazin : "Sir John Templeton is dead" , July 8, 2008
- ↑ Sir John Templeton (1934) on the Balliol College website
- ↑ C. Schüle: Money teaches you to pray . In Zeit online 5/2006
- ↑ Associated Press : John M. Templeton Jr., Who Led Foundation, Dies at 75. In: The New York Times, May 19, 2015 (accessed May 20, 2015).
- ↑ Templeton Freedom Award on www.atlasnetwork.org
- ↑ John Marks Templeton in the Notable Names Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Templeton, John Marks |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Templeton, Sir John Marks Sr. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British founder of the Templeton Growth Fund |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winchester (Tennessee) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2008 |
| Place of death | Nassau (Bahamas) |