Ethel Margery Templer
Ethel Margery Davie, Lady Templer (23 July 1904 – 24 March 1997) was a lieutenant colonel in the St John Ambulance Brigade during World War II, the founder of Lady Templer Hospital in Malaya and active during the Malaya Emergency. She was the wife of Sir Gerald Templer, and when he was British High Commissioner of Malaysia, she was known as the "First Lady of Malaysia". Biography Ethel Margery Davie was born in Devon to Charles Davie, a retired solicitor, and his wife Beatrice, on 23 July 1904. An intelligent child, Davies' father reportedly removed her from school after the headmistress suggested she take an entrance exam to Oxford. She first met Gerald Templar when staying with her grandparents in 1920. The two were engaged in 1924, married on 8 September 1926, and, according to her obituary in The Times, for many years she "made a successful career as an officer's wife, resolutely in the background and supportive to a man who could at times be prickly". Templer ran social clubs. During the Second World War, she lived in Woodford, Wiltshire and was a lieutenant-colonel in the St John Ambulance Brigade. They would have a daughter in 1934 and a