Richard Carnac Temple

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.

Richard Carnac Temple was born in Allahabad, India, on 15 October 1850. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Temple (1826-1902), a baronet, and his first wife, Charlotte Frances (neé Martindale, d. 1855). His father was from The Nash in Kempsey, Worcestershire and was at that time working as a civil servant in India. His father eventually served as Governor of Bombay Presidency (1877-80), a position that had also been held by Richard Carnac Temple's great-grandfather, Sir James Rivett Carnac between 1838-41.

After education at Harrow School and, from 1868, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Temple was commissioned in the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1871. He was transferred to the British Indian Army in 1877, being mentioned in despatches while serving with the 38th Dogras in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-79. By this time, he had risen from his original rank of Ensign to that of Lieutenant in the Bengal Staff Corps.

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