Temple was back with a D'Oyly Carte touring company briefly the following year, playing Pyjama in "The Nautch Girl". Also in 1892, he was appointed to the Royal College of Music, where he directed student productions. He made occasional appearances in London in "L' Impresario" at the Olympic Theatre (1892), as Lord Silvertop in "The Golden Web" at the Lyric Theatre in 1893, as George in "Miami" at Princess's Theatre in 1893, as Sid Fakah in "Morocco Bound", with music by Osmond Carr, at the Shaftesbury Theatre and then the Trafalgar Theatre in 1893–94, and starred as Dick in "Wapping Old Stairs" at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1894, which he also directed and produced.