William Templeton (British politician)

William Paterson Templeton (8 November 1876 – 4 July 1938) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

A native of Camlachie, Glasgow, Templeton was a wood turner by trade.

He contested Ross and Cromarty in 1911 and sat as Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1924 until 1929.

In 1934, he, alongside Captain Herbert Moss MP and a former Glasgow town councillor, were convicted of contravening the Lotteries Act in connection to the Modern School of Art Union Cesarewitch draw.

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