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Sir John Templeton: investor and philanthropist | July 09, 2008

John Templeton was one of the great investors of the 20th century, making many hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and those whose funds he managed. But his name is perhaps better known for the way he gave his fortune away.

The Templeton Prize for Progress towards Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, initially known as the Templeton prize for Progress in Religion, is the world’s richest individual Prize, always set higher than the Nobel and currently worth £820,000. Its distinguished but highly eclectic recipients have included Mother Teresa, the cosmologist John Barrow, the environmental ethicist Holmes Rolston, the philosopher Charles Taylor, Billy Graham, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Charles Colson, the Nixon aide imprisoned for his role in Watergate (he later founded a prison outreach programme).

Posted by admin at July 9, 2008 04:02 PM


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