In 1924 he moved to
Imperial College London as a demonstrator, where he worked under the direction of
Sydney Chapman. After a period spent with
Arthur Stanley Eddington at the
University of Cambridge, he returned to Imperial as
reader in mathematics. He was appointed professor of mathematics at
King's College London in 1932, where he returned after
war service with the
Royal Aircraft Establishment at
Farnborough. In 1953 he was appointed
Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the
University of Oxford, a chair which he held until 1968, and in which he succeeded Chapman. He was also an honorary
Fellow of
Queen's College, Oxford. During his time at Oxford he stated that he was 'a member of the most exclusive club in Oxford - which had no name or organisation but which met every Monday in
The Eagle and Child pub with
C.S. Lewis,
J.R.R. Tolkien and other great writers.' The group were known as
The Inklings, but by the 1950s it was well past its literary peak, perhaps indicated by the fact that Temple was unaware that the group had a name. ==Personal life==