Publications
Emily Temple: A Burgess Hill Benefactress , by Pat Farrell and Shirley Penny, published 2005 (Occasional papers, no. 1, 31 pp., Burgess Hill Local History Society, ISBN-10: 0954928105 & ISBN-13: 9780954928100) accessible at: British Library & Burgess Hill Local History Society & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:The Burgess Hill Local History Society have published a small booklet about Emily Temple who was an early benefactress of our town although is little known. Born in the early years of the nineteenth century she became a successful woman in what was then a man's world. Madame Temple, as she like d to be called, came to live in Burgess Hill building St. John's House for herself. Later she built five villas in Upper St John's Road, five pairs of semi-detached villas in Lower Church Road and the St John's Institute (now Park Centre). Madame Temple also gave generously to the poor.