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TEMPLE Neville & Edward Trevor : Tannhauser; or the Battle of the Bards, a Poem EDWYN TEMPLE'S COPY

Chapman and Hall, London, 1861

16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. second edition in original blind decorated gilt titled cloth, this has been damped in the past and the glue has perished so there is some lifting to the upper board, also some soiling and fading, probbly due for a recovering, internally VG with the bookplate of Edwyn Temple to the paste down, and his signature to the half title, minor scattered light foxing, 117pp "Edwyn Temple, or 'The Captain' as he was referred to by his friends and family, was born in England in 1835, the son of Lieutenant Colonel John Temple and the grandson of Grenville Temple-Temple 9th Baronet of Stowe. He was a member of a large patrician English family of military and political figures that reached back in time to Edward the Confessor. One ancestor, Sir Richard Temple, served with the Duke of Marlborough and every generation of the Temple family had members who pursued military careers. Edwyn Temple was no exception. Educated at Rugby School, he entered the military services in 1853. During a brief period in Italy a relative, Princess Pondalfina, recognised his ability and engaged a tutor to teach him the rudiments of painting. Temple was ensigned in 1854 and became a Captain in the 55th Foot (Westmoreland) Regiment in 1858. He later served in the Crimea and in India from 1864 to 1866. By that time he had married and the first of a family of nine children had been born. It was more than nine years after retiring from the army that he decided to emigrate with his wife and family to New Zealand, arriving in Lyttelton on 25 October 1879. Within a very short time of his arrival, he was established and developed a network of ex-military friends in Christchurch. Some of these were among the group that got together in June 1880 to form the Canterbury Society of Arts. Temple's role in its formation cannot be overstated and, in acknowledgment of this, he was elected to the key role of Secretary / Treasurer of the Society. In 1882 he moved to Geraldine to a property, 'Castlewood', which he had purchased the previous year. There he lived and farmed for almost 3 decades, a Justice of the Peace from 1883, but mostly concentrating on painting before retiring to live in Timaru in the 1900s. " Christchurch Art Gallery archive.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Decorative Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket

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