Richard Carnac Temple

Capt., (Lieut. Col.; Col.) Sir Richard Carnac Temple RC, CIE Bart.
Born	1850
Died	1931
Residence	Andaman Islands Cantonment Magistrate, Ferozepore, Punjab [1881] Cantonment Magistrate, Umballa, Punjab [1883] Mandalay, Upper Burmah [1888] Rangoon, Burmah [1897] c/o H.S. King & Co. [1899] Government House, Port Blair, Andaman Islands; c/o H.S. King & Co. [1900] AND The Nash, Worcester [1903] The Nash, Worcester [1905] Room 53, India Office, SW1 [1923]
Occupation	armed services administrative
Society Membership membership Ordinary fellow Local Correspondent [not after 1902] left 1931 deceased elected_AI 1879.11.111900.04.24 clubs Athenaeum Club Carlton Club Marlborough Club societies Folklore Society British Academy Royal Asiatic Society Royal Arts Society Royal Geographical Society Philological Society Society of Antiquaries

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Office Notes

AI Council 1904 Member
AI Council 1905 Member
AI Council 1906 Member
RAI Council 1908 Member
RAI Council 1909 Member
RAI Council 1910 Member

House Notes

proposed 1879.11.04
1900.04.24 elected as Local Correspondent
1900.10.23 accepts post of Local Correspondent

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Richard Carnac Temple, 2nd Baronet CB, CIE (15 October 1850 – 3 March 1931) was the British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and an anthropological writer.

Born India; died Switzerland.
Served in various capacities in India 1877-1904, the last 9 years as Chief Commissioner, Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Numerous publications on India. Donated collections to many museums. He was an enthusiastic supporter of applied anthropology. CIE 1894; CB 1916. Honorary Fellow, Trinity Hall 1908

Other learned societies: Folklore; British Academy 1925; Royal Asiatic; Royal Arts; RGS; Philological; Asiatic Society Bengal; Antiquaries; Numismatic of Philadelphia; Philosophy of America; Oriental Society of Italy; Anthropological of Bombay. Served on the Council of most of the above societies and sometime as Director of Royal Asiatic.
Clubs: Athenaeum; Carlton; Marlborough; Royal Societies

Publications

External Publications

A Dictionary of Hindustani Proverbs. (Ed.) Medical Hall Press, Banares, 1886. The Andaman Language (with E. H. Man), 1887. Legends of the Punjab The Thirty-Seven Nats Letters and Character Sketches from the House of Commons. John Murray. 1912.[11] Anthropology as a Practical Science. G. Bell & Sons, London, 1914. Devil-Worship of the Tuluvas (editor, orig. Fallon) Countries Round the Bay of Bengal (editor, orig. Bowrey) The Travels of Peter Mundy, 1608-67 3. Hakluyt Society. 1919.[12] The Word of Lalla the Prophetess. Cambridge University Press. 1924.[13] The Travels of Peter Mundy, 1608-67 4. Hakluyt Society. 1925.[14] An Appreciation of Drake's Achievement in Penzer, N. M., ed. (1926). The World Encompassed, and Analogous Contemporary Documents concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World. Argonaut Press.[15] The Papers of Thomas Bowrey, 1669-1713. Hakluyt Press. 1927.[16] Foreword to Panikkar, K. M. (1929). Malabar and the Portuguese; Being a History of the Relations of the Portuguese with Malabar from 1500 to 1663. Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co

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