Frederick Temple figures of the Cathedral's history shown there. Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1897. Attribution Frederick Temple Frederick Temple (30 November 1821 – 23 December 1902) was an English academic, teacher, churchman, and Archbishop of Canterbury, from 1896 until his death. Temple was born in Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands, the son of Major Octavius Temple, who was subsequently appointed lieutenant-governor of Sierra Leone. On his retirement, Major Temple settled in Devon and contemplated a farming life for his son Frederick, giving him a practical training to that end. Temple's grandfather was William Johnson Temple,
Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions divided into three sections: confession, marriage, and death; three crucial occasions in the life of each single individual. David F. Swenson translated the book as "Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life" (subtitle: "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions") 1941 and Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong did so in 1993 under the title, "Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions". (Swenson's translation has both titles while Hong's has only the latter, both Swenson and Hong translated Kierkegaard's "Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses" also) Each of these imagined discourses involve the anxiety of making a decision. Kierkegaard wrote much on that subject earlier as