Richard Carnac Temple

Richard Carnac Temple

Sir Richard Carnac Temple CIE (15 October 1850, Allahabad, India –1931) was the British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and an anthropological writer.

Army and political career

Temple was educated at Harrow School and, after graduating from Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1871, he joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers, serving first in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, and then in the Third Burmese War. ["Obituary: Sir Richard Carnac Temple", The Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1931.] Immediately after the war, he was appointed as an Assistant-Commissioner in Burma and a Cantonment Magistrate in the newly conquered city of Mandalay and was promoted to Deputy-Commissioner in 1888. [ [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/5386/rctemple Biography of Sir Richard Carnac Temple] ] In 1894 he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1897, he retired in 1904.

Anthropology

Temple was an amateur anthropologist. [ [http://history.prm.ox.ac.uk/collector_3784.html Relational Museum Collector Information] ] He assembled collections for the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and established a small museum in his home in Kempsey, Worcestershire, but sold much of this on in 1921. [ [http://www.virtualmuseum.info/collections/themes/temple_man_tuson/html/temple.html Biography from the Brighton & Hove Museum] .]

elected works

Temple wrote various works often dealing with the religions and geography of India. [gutenberg|no=13240|name=A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin]

His writings include:
*"Wide-awake Stories" (Punjab Folk Tales) (1884), with Mrs. F.A. Steel
*"Legends of the Punjab" (1883-90), ed.
*"The Thirty Seven Nats, a Phase of Spirit Worship Prevailing in Burma", London, W. Griggs (1906)

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/5386/rctemple.htm?200628 A biography]
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~usher/ushersct/3317.htm Biographical details]
*worldcat id|lccn-n50-36745


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