Harold Temperley

Harold Temperley

Harold William Vezeille Temperley (20 April 1879 – 11 July 1939) was a British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Overview

Temperley's field was modern diplomatic history, and he was heavily involved as editor in the publication of the British Government's official version of the diplomatic history of the early twentieth century. He also wrote on George Canning and Eastern European history.

He was educated at Sherborne School and latterly at first King's College, Cambridge and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

In World War I he served in the British Army at Gallipoli, and was then seconded to the War Office, working on intelligence and policy in the Balkans. His "History of Serbia" was published in 1917.

He attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and later worked on an official history of it, on a scheme devised by George Louis Beer and Lord Eustace Percy. He was British representative on the Albanian boundary commission; and was an advisor in 1921 to Arthur Balfour at the League of Nations.

In the compilation of the "British Documents on the Origins of the War" he collaborated with George Peabody Gooch, (1873-1968), another diplomatic historian and a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party from 1906 to 1910. Gooch had spoken out against British policy in the Second Boer War, and was also a historian of Germany; his appointment was designed to give the project a credible independence. In the event Temperley and Gooch were constrained financially, and in the use of documents subject to a 'fifty year rule' limitation on their release. They had to employ tactical resignation threats, to get their own way. Lillian Margery Penson (1896-1963) was involved in this, and a later project on the "Blue Books".

The historian Herbert Butterfield was a student of Temperley's.

Works

*The life of Canning, (1905)
*History of Serbia (1917)
*Frederic the Great and Kaiser Joseph: An Episode of War and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century (1915)
*A history of the Peace Conference of Paris, (6 vols) 1920-24;
*The foreign policy of Canning, 1822-1827 (1925)
*British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914 (1926-1938) with George Peabody Gooch
**I. The end of British isolation
**II The Anglo-Japanese alliance and the Franco-British entente
**III. The testing of the entente, 1904-6
**IV The Anglo-Russian rapprochement, 1903-7
**V. The Near East: The Macedonian problem and the annexation of Bosnia, 1903-9
**VI Anglo-German tension: armaments and negotiation, 1907-12
**VII The Agadir Crisis
**VIII. Arbitration, neutrality and security
**IX.1.The Balkan wars: The prelude. The Tripoli war
**IX.2 The Balkan wars: The League and Turkey
**X.1 The Near and Middle East on the eve of war
**X.2 The last years of peace
**XI The outbreak of war
*Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1927) with A. J. Grant, textbook later updated
*England and the Near East: The Crimea (1936)
*The Foundation of British Foreign Policy (1938) with L. M. Penson
*A Century of Diplomatic Blue Books, 1814-1914 (1938) with L. M. Penson

See also

*Ernest Satow who corresponded with Temperley.

References

*"Harold Temperley: A Scholar and Romantic in the Public Realm, 1879-1939" (University of Delaware Press,1992) John D. Fair


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