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men of mark, both masters and pupils, far-reaching and abiding. As a speaker he carried weight by his evident sincerity as well as by his vigorous language. In the latter part of his life he spoke most frequently on foreign missions, temperance, and the education controversy. On these subjects the fire of his yoiuiger days never died away,

He married, on 24 Aug. 1876, Beatrice Blanche, fifth daughter of Wilham Saunders Sebright Lascelles and Lady Caroline Georgiana Howard, daughter of George sixth Earl of Carlisle. He had two sons, Frederick Charles, born in 1879, appointed in 1908 district engineer under Indian government; William, born in 1881, fellow and tutor of Queen's College, Oxford, 1908-1910, headmaster of Repton School, 1910.

A portrait by G. F. Watts is at Rugby, another by Prynne is in the Palace at Exeter, a third by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., is at Fulham Palace; of the last, replicas are at Lambeth Palace and in possession of Mrs. Temple, and the picture was engraved by the artist. A bust by Woolner is at Rugby in the Temple reading-room; a medallion by Brock in the chapel, Rugby; and a bust by Frampton at Sherborne School, with a replica in bronze in the Temple speech-room, Rugby. A monument by F. W. Pomeroy was erected in St. Paul's Cathedral in 1903. The new speech-room at Rugby, mainly a memorial to Archbishop Temple, was opened by King Edward VII in 1909. Cartoon portraits appeared in 'Vanity Fair' in 1869 and 1902 (by 'Spy').

Temple's chief published works were: 1. 'Sermons preached in Rugby School Chapel,' three series, the first 'in 1858-9-60' (1861; 3rd ed. 1870); the second 'in 1862–7' (1871; reprinted 1872, 1876); the third 'in 1867–9' (1871; reprinted 1873, 1886). 2. 'Quiet Growth, a Sermon preached in Clifton College Chapel, Simday, 16 June 1867.' 3. 'The Three Spiritual Revelations, a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Exeter on Wednesday, 29 Dec. 1869, by Frederick, Lord Bishop of the Diocese, on that Day enthroned,' 1870. 4. 'Episcopal Charges, Exeter,' 1883, 1884. 5. 'The Relations between Rehgion and Science,' eight Bampton lectures, 1884; reprinted 1885, 1903. 6. Charge dehvered at his First Visitation, Canterbury, 1898. 7. 'On the Reservation of the Sacrament, Lambeth Palace, 1 May 1900.' 8. 'Five of the Latest Utterances of Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury,' 1903.

[Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by Seven Friends, edited by E. G. Sandford, Archbishop of Exeter, 2 vols. 1906; A. C. Benson, Life of Edward White Benson, 1899; Mrs. Creighton, Life of Mandell Creighton, 1904; L. Campbell and E. Abbott, Life of Benjamin Jowett, 1897.]

H. M. S.


TEMPLE, Sir RICHARD, first baronet (1826–1902), Anglo-Indian administrator, born at Kempsey, near Worcester, on March 1826, was elder son of the six children of Richard Temple (1800–1874) of the Nash, Worcestershire, a country squire, by his first wife Louisa (d. 1837), youngest daughter of James Rivett Carnac, governor of Bombay, and sister of Sir James Rivett Carnac [q. v.]. From a private school at Wick near his home Temple proceeded to Rugby under Thomas Arnold in August 1839. His contemporaries included the headmaster's son, William Delafield Arnold [q. v.] (1828–1859), Lord Stanley, afterwards the fifteenth earl of Derby [q. v.], M. W. D. Waddington, subsequently prime minister of France, and John Conington [q. v.]. In 1844 his education at Rugby was cut short by the offer and acceptance of a writership in the East India Co.'s service. Passing out head of Haileybury College, he reached Calcutta in January 1847.

Transferred to the North West Provinces, he was sent to Muttra and thence to Allahabad, where he gained some experience of settlement work, and came under the favourable notice of the lieutenant-governor, James Thomason [q. v.]. On 27 Dec. 1849 he married the sister-in-law of his collector, Charlotte Frances, daughter of Benjamin Martindale. History was then in the making in the adjoining province of the Punjab, and he secured in 1851 a second transfer to that newly annexed province in which, under the immediate eye of Lord Dalhousie [q. v.], the board, including the brothers Henry and John Lawrence [q. v.], was reducing chaos to order and establishing a settled government. From 1851 Temple laboured as the disciple, the assistant, and the official reporter of the views and work of John Lawrence, who was appointed chief commissioner in February 1853, unfettered by any colleagues. At first Temple was entrusted with settlement work, and at the close of the period he had executive charge of a division as commissioner. But the appointments which enabled him to assimilate the unrivalled experiences of Lawrence, and win his patronage, were those of special assistant to the board