Native Races and Their Rulers : Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria

Argus Publishing, Cape town, 1918, first edition, hardcover, illustrated, 250 pages, 15.2 cms x 22 cms, re-cased, overall condition: very good.

The author, Charles Lindsay Temple was Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria from January 1914 until ill health caused him to relinquish the post in 1917. Temple was the only child from the second marriage of Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, who had wed Mary Augusta Lindsay in January 1871.From 1898 he was acting consul at the state of Pará, Brazil, and from 1899 to 1901 the vice-consul at Manaus in the same country. After being transferred to Northern Nigeria in 1901, he was appointed CMG for his diplomatic service in 1909 and rose to become Lieutenant-Governor of that region in 1914.