OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 12, 14 July 1939, Page 9

OBITUARY

MAJOR HAROLD TEMPERLEY

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 12.

The death has occurred of Major Harold Temperley, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and Master of- Peterhouse.

Major Harold William Temperley was born in 1879 and educated at Sherborne School, and at King's College! and Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1911^ 12 he was a lecturer at Harvard University, and in the World War saw service with the Dardanelles Expedition, and in the Salonika Force. He was a staff captain, second grade, and was a member of the British delegation at the Peace Conference. Later he went on a mission to Montenegro, and was British representative of the Commission which drew the frontiers of Albania. His historical works made him a wide reputation, and he became Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and Master of Peterhouse. With G. P. Gooch he edited British documents on the origin of the World War, and other well-known works by him are his "Foreign Policy of Canning," "History of , the Peace Conference at Paris," "Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," "Life of George Canning," and (with L. M. Penson) "Foundations of British Foreign Policy." He was decorated by Rumania, Poland, and Serbia, received the 0.8. E. in 1920, and was a Litt.D. of Cambridge and an ! Honorary Litt.D. of Durham. He was twice married, and had one son by his first wife.