Sir Richard Temple, Bart. 181 



In the year 1872 Maxwell Simpson was appointed Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Queen's College, Cork. He now devoted himself 

 enthusiastically to the performance of the duties of this appointment, 

 and did his best by lectures and practical instruction to forward the 

 scientific knowledge of his pupils. According to the testimony of the 

 students, he was a most excellent teacher, second to none. The attention 

 he paid to the duties of his Professorship, however, absorbed all his 

 time and energies, so that he no longer was able to do original work. 

 After the year 1872 his name occurs only once or twice in the scientific 

 periodicals. 



Commercial work Maxwell Simpson always refused. Liberal-minded, 

 he always returned poor students the fees they had paid as members of 

 his classes. It was only natural that a Professor like Maxwell Simpson 

 should gain the respect and affection of all his students. 



After working 20 years at Cork he retired and took up his abode at 

 West Kensington, London, where he spent the last ten years of his life 

 in quiet retirement, which was only broken by two painful events. 

 First, he lost his eldest daughter, who was most devoted to her father, 

 and then, only two years ago, Mrs. Simpson, the faithful wife who had 

 shared, for more than 50 years, all his pleasures and sorrows. 



H. D. 



RT. HON. SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, BART. 18261902. 



Sir Eichard Temple, who died March 15, 1902, was born in 1826, 



at the Nash, Kempsey, near Worcester. This property had belonged 



to his family, who were a younger branch of the Temples of Stowe, for 



many generations, and was ultimately inherited by him. He was 



educated at Rugby and Haileybury, and entered the Indian Civil 



Service in 1846. After serving for some years in the North- West 



Provinces and the Punjab, where he became, in 1854, secretary to 



Sir John (afterwards Lord) Lawrence, he was appointed, in 1860, 



member of a Special Financial Commission, arid visited the different 



provinces of India to investigate their resources and revenue. His 



subsequent career is well known, and his official promotion was rapid. 



He became in succession, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. 



Resident at Hyderabad, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India 



(1868), Financial Member of the Governor-General's Council (1868), 



Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (1874), and Governor of Bombay (1877). 



In 1880 he retired from Indian service, and became a candidate for 



Parliament, at first unsuccessfully, but in 1885 he was elected member 



for Evesham in Worcestershire, and represented first that borough and 



