Charles Lindsay Temple

Charles Lindsay Temple (20 November 1871 – 9 January 1929) was Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria from January 1914 until ill-health caused him to relinquish the post in 1917.[1]

Temple was the only child from the second marriage of Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, who had wed Mary Augusta Lindsay in January 1871. He was born in Shimla, British India, on 20 November 1871 and was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He married Olive MacLeod, daughter of Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, in 1912.[3] He died in Granada, Spain, of kidney failure on 9 January 1929.[1]

In 1915, Olive and Charles published a book on their life in Nigeria titled Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria.[4][5]

References
  1. Alderman, C. J. F. "Temple, Charles Lindsay (1871–1929), colonial official and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 28 September 2016. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  2. Cambridge Alumni Database, University of Cambridge, Wikidata Q42844190
  3. "Photographs and paintings by Olive and Charles L. Temple, c.1910-1918". Archives Hub. Jisc. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. Harris, Samantha (29 June 2017). "An early 20th Century female traveller to Africa". Maidstone Museum. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  5. Olive Temple (1922). C. L. Temple (ed.). Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria.
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