Richard Carnac Temple
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Sir Richard Carnac Temple CIE (1850–1931) was a writer in the nineteenth century. Educated at Oxford University he served in the army (Royal Scots Fusiliers), the colonial service and was an amateur anthropologist[1]
Temple served in India and in Burma and, in 1894, became Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1897, he retired in 1904. 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[2]
His works include:
- Wide-awake Stories (Punjab Folk Tales) (1884), with Mrs. F.A. Steel
- Legends of the Punjab (1883-90), ed.
and various works dealing with the religions and geography of India, etc.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Relational Museum Collector Information
- ^ Biography from the Brighton & Hove Museum.
- ^ A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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