Category:Nicholas Temperley

Nicholas Temperley JP (1844-1923) was a councillor representing Gateshead, where he lived. He was a Newcastle businessman and a senior trustee of the Newcastle and Gateshead Savings Bank. As a mycologist, his particular interest was in mosses and fungi. He was a member of The Moss Exchange Club (Botanical Exchange Club) and The British Bryological Society. (Source: A Short Account of the MEC and BBS by Eleonora Armitage, 1944) He was chairman of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, and a member of the Natural History Society, the Mycological Society and the Royal English Arboricultural Society. He was also an archaeologist, submitting papers on the subject, and a member of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, the Durham Society of Archaeologists and the Historical Association. He was vice president in 1915 of the Literary and Philosophical Society. He was a member of Newcastle Liberal Club, helping to get a children's play area built, and so on. He learned several languages, and travelled to the US, Canada, North Africa. {Source: Vasculum (journal) 1924)

Nicholas Temperley 

English merchant, magistrate and mycologist (1844-1923)
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Date of birth	1844 Hexham
Date of death	30 September 1923 Gateshead
Residence	Low Fell (4, Carlton Terrace, Low Fell, Gateshead, England, 1923)
Occupation	merchant justice of the peace mycologist
Member of	Royal Archaeological Institute (Royal Archaeological Society) British Mycological Society British Bryological Society
Father	William Angus Temperley
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