Shipped off to India: The Early Life of Sir Richard Temple 1826-1902

Accompany Richard Temple through his demanding formative years and a tragically brief marriage, until, aged only thirty-six, he was entrusted with sole control of a whole region to govern.

Signing up for a lifetime in India was a sacrifice, no less for the men than for the women they married. What made that sacrifice worthwhile for the young Richard Temple were qualities now seen as old-fashioned: a belief in God and a sense of purpose, inculcated by the East India College, Haileybury. Convi...