1788–1861). _b._ 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826;
educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the
school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay
N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was
ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order
in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853,
made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus
June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in
Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title
of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria
1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian
christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission
to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul
Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866,
and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West
Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general
in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879;
minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S.
1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central
and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha,
2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872;
Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands
1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; _m._ 1868
Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted
civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he _d._ Monte Video 30
Sept. 1888. _bur._ St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. _T. Cooper’s Men
of mark_, _vol. iv_ (1880) _portrait_ 4.
PALIN, WILLIAM (youngest son of Richard Palin). _b._ Mortlake,
Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec.
1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851,
M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R.
of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church
1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of
Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative
of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the
church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original
hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford
and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about
Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. _d._ Stifford rectory-house
16 Oct. 1882. _W. Palin’s Stifford_ (1871) 72, 179–80.
PALIN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service).
_b._ India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21
May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester
1857, resigned Feb. 1881. _d._ 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park,
Liverpool 16 June 1882. _bur._ Southern cemetery, Withington.
PALLISER, FANNY BURY (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich
1832–4). _b._ 23 Sept. 1805; (_m._ 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard
Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co.
Tipperary, he _d._ Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged
55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to
organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington
1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of
lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic
devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of
the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871,
3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s
pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany
to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J.
Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A.
Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history
of furniture 1878. _d._ 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany.
1878. _F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i_, 256–60 (1872);
_Academy i_ 73 (1878).
PALIOLOGUS, WILLIAM THOMAS (son of Nicholas Paliologus of
Calcutta, notary public _d._ 1840). _b._ Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827;
educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth,
England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied
medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon
in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India
1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872;
was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the
East. _d._ Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873.
_Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p._ 45 _portrait_; _N. and Q. 1
S. v_ 173 _et seq._ (1852); _Archæologia xviii_ 84–104 (1817).
PALLISER, HENRY. _b._ 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel
13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. _d._ Victoria
park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.
PALLISER, JOHN (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co.
Waterford, _d._ 1862). _b._ 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford
1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting
expedition among the Indians of the western states of America
1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for
exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857;
explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the
Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859;
returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary
rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth
thousand 1856. _d._ Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.
PALLISER, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). _b._ Dublin
18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall,
Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855,
lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug.
1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on
h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec.
1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance
and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took
out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for
chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced
into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns,
bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at
Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown
of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport
18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes
of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and
shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of
earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive
against invasion 1871; _m._ 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham,
she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. _d._
21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 9
Feb. _Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii_ 128, _xiv_
163, _xvi_ 125; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_ 418–21
(1882); _I.L.N. lxii_ 177, 178 (1873) _portrait_.
PALMER, ARTHUR (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol).
_b._ 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts,
circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury
15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. _d._ the Hot Wells, Clifton
19 Nov. 1856. _J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 303.
PALMER, CHARLES (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of
mail-coaches 1742–1818). _b._ Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777;
educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet
10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814;
lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25
Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king,
8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the
Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7;
proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in
the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the
third reading of the reform bill 1832. _d._ 17 April 1851. _G.M.
July 1851 p._ 92; _Royal military calendar iv_ 243 (1820).
PALMER, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 1808; collector of rare prints and
etchings; bought the great etching by Rembrandt of “Christ
healing the sick,” better known as “the hundred guilder print,”
at sir Charles Price’s sale for £1,180, the largest sum ever
paid for a print down to May 1883; some of his paintings were
sold at Christie’s on 16 May 1868. _d._ 46 Portland place,
London 3 Jany. 1868. _Athenæum 18 Jany. 1868 p._ 98.
PALMER, CHARLES JOHN (only son of John Danby Palmer, ship
owner). _b._ Yarmouth 1 Jany. 1805; articled to Robert Cory,
attorney 1822–7; a freeman of Banff 12 Oct. 1824, and of
Yarmouth 28 June 1825; a notary public 10 May 1827; an attorney
29 June 1827; proctor to admiralty court, Yarmouth 12 Aug.
1827; practised at Yarmouth 1827–77; an alderman of the old
corporation to 1835, member of the town council, mayor 1854
and 1855; chief promoter of the Victoria building company; a
promoter of the Wellington pier and of the assembly rooms; hon.
sec. of church restoration committee 1845–75; F.S.A. 1830;
edited The history of Great Yarmouth by Henry Manship 1854;
author of The history of Great Yarmouth 1856; The perlustration
of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols. 1872–5;
Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth and of New
York 1873; edited with Stephen I. Tucker, Palgrave family
memorials, Norwich 1878. _d._ Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth 24
Sept. 1882. _Leaves from the diary of C. J. Palmer_, _edited by
F. D. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _Law Times lxxiii_ 388 (1882).
PALMER, EDWARD (3 son of James Burden Palmer of Charlottetown,
Prince Edward island). _b._ Charlottetown 1 Sept. 1809; called
to the local bar 1831, admitted solicitor 1834; Q.C. 1857;
member of the assembly to 1860, of the legislative council 1860;
solicitor general Prince Edward island 1848–51; attorney general
1854, 1863–9, and 1872–3; president of executive council 1859;
judge of county court of Queen’s county 1873, and chief justice
July 1874 to death. _d._ Charlottetown 3 Nov. 1889. _Law Times
25 Jany. 1890 p._ 229.
PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Palmer, schoolmaster).
_b._ Green st. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1840; educ. Perse gr. sch.
Cambridge; clerk in the office of Hill and Underwood of
Eastcheap, London, wine merchants 1856–9; learnt Persian,
Arabic and Hindustani; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Camb. 9 Oct.
1863, scholar 16 June 1865, fellow 5 Nov. 1867 to death; B.A.
1867, M.A. 1870; catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish
manuscripts of King’s and Trinity colleges and of the university
library; one of the surveyors of Sinai for the Palestine
exploration fund 1869; walked from Sinai to Jerusalem with C.
F. T. Drake, identifying sites and searching for inscriptions
1870; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Cambridge 10 Nov.
1871 to death, lectured on Arabic, Persian and Hindustani
1873–81; barrister M.T. 6 June 1874; wrote leading articles
for the Standard, London, daily paper Aug. 1881 to June 1882;
sent by the government to Egypt on a secret-service mission
June and July 1882; rode from Alexandria across the desert to
Suez; interpreter-in-chief to British forces in Egypt Aug. 1882;
started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, _shot_ by Bedouins
at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. _bur._ in crypt of St. Paul’s cath.
London 6 April 1883; portrait in hall of St. John’s coll. Camb.,
his widow was granted civil list pension of £200, 2 Feb. 1883;
author of Oriental mysticism, a treatise on the Sufiistic and
unitarian theosophy of the Persians 1867; A catalogue of the
Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Trinity college,
Cambridge 1870; The desert of the exodus, journeys on foot
1871; A grammar of the Arabic language 1874; A dictionary of
the Persian language 1876; The Arabic manual 1881; Simplified
grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic 1882; with W. Besant,
Jerusalem the city of Herod and Saladin 1871, 2 ed. 1888; with
C. G. Leland English gipsy songs 1875. _W. Besant’s Life of E.
H. Palmer_ (1883) _portrait_; _A. E. Haynes’ Man-hunting in
the desert, a narrative of Palmer’s Search-expedition_ (1894)
_portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_ 469 (1882) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxi_
461 (1882) _portrait_.
PALMER, EDWIN (4 son of William Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, V.
of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 18 July 1824; educ.
Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1841, scholar 1841–5;
Hertford and Ireland scholar 1843; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1850, D.D.
1878; fellow of Balliol 29 Nov. 1845 to 19 Sept. 1867, hon.
fellow 1870; senior dean 1855, catechetical lecturer 1871;
select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1865–6 and 1873–4; fellow Corpus
Christi coll. 1870–8, vice-president 1877, hon. fellow 1878;
Corpus professor of Latin literature 1870–8; examining chaplain
to bishop of Oxford 1869; archdeacon of Oxford with canonry of
Christ Church 1878 to death; edited The Apology of Plato 1867;
Catulli Veronensis Carmina selecta 1872; The Greek testament
1881; author of Bishop Patteson missionary bishop and martyr
1872, and of charges and sermons. _d._ Christ Church, Oxford 17
Oct. 1895. _bur._ Osney cemet. Oxford 21 Oct. _I.L.N. 26 Oct.
1895 p._ 510 _portrait_; _Black and White 26 Oct. 1895 p._ 530
_portrait_.
PALMER, FRANCIS ROGER. _b._ 21 Oct. 1811; ensign 89 foot 22
March 1833; 1 lieut. rifle corps 26 Feb. 1836, lieut. col. 22
June 1858 to death; colonel in the army 22 June 1863; C.B. 16
Nov. 1858. _d._ Villa d’ Este, Lake Como, Italy 18 Oct. 1872.
PALMER, GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Palmer of Wanlip, Leics. and of
London, merchant, _d._ 1821, aged 53). _b._ 11 Feb. 1772; educ.
Charterhouse; served in the East India company’s navy 1786–99;
East India merchant and shipowner at 28 Throgmorton st. London
1802; master of the Mercers’ company 1821; connected with the
National lifeboat institution 1826, lifeboats on his plan were
used at more than 20 ports until 1858, deputy chairman 25 years,
resigned Feb. 1853; chairman of the General shipowners’ society
1832; contested South Shields Dec. 1832; M.P. South Essex
1836–47; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1818; sheriff of Essex; author
of Memoir of a chart from the strait of Allas to the island
Bouro 1799; A new plan for fitting all boats so that they may be
secure as lifeboats at the shortest notice 1828. _d._ Nazeing
park, Essex 12 May 1853. _The lifeboat July 1853 pp._ 28–32;
_G.M. June 1853 pp._ 656–7.
PALMER, GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of Henry Palmer of Brynbank,
Carmarthenshire). _b._ Wernligoes parish, Llanvalteg,
Carmarthenshire 29 Dec. 1831; educ. Narberth and Carmarthen
college; usher at a school in France; a student of univ. of
Glasgow Nov. 1853, M.A. 1856; resident lecturer in classics and
history at cavalry college, Richmond, Jany. to Dec. 1859; sec.
of Law amendment society 8 April 1861 to 1864; barrister G.I. 6
June 1861; contributed to Law Magazine and Law Times; edited a
trades’ protection paper 1863; edited The law magazine and law
review 1864; secretary of jurisprudence department of Social
science association 1864; left Gravesend for Melbourne in the
steamer “London” 30 Dec. 1865, the ship foundered in the Bay
of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. _Law Mag. and Law Review xxi_ 129–36
(1866).
PALMER, GEORGE JOSIAH (son of George Josiah Palmer, printer
in Savoy st. Strand, London). _b._ Clapham, Surrey 30 June
1828; educ. Clapham gram. sch. and King’s coll. sch. London; a
compositor in his father’s establishment, then manager of the
printing office; a printer at 27 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1853–60;
removed to 32 Little Queen st. Holborn 1860; publisher of the
Union newspaper to 27 June 1862; started The Church Times, a
penny weekly paper in the high church interest, which he also
edited, No. 1 7 Feb. 1863, editor to his death; hon. treasurer
of Church of England working men’s soc.; a publisher of books.
_d._ Ramsgate 27 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 1 Feb.
_Church portrait journal 15 July 1885 pp._ 45–6 _portrait_;
_Church Times 29 Jany. 1892 p._ 97, _5 Feb. 1892 p._ 119.
PALMER, HENRY. _b._ 11 July 1807; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 13 Feb.
1826, major 5 June 1853; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 4 Oct.
1857, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877;
served against Bheel tribes 1827–8; served in Afghan and Belooch
campaigns 1838–40; commanded 48 B.N.I. at Modkie and Ferozeshah;
brigade major of general Wheeler’s force in the Punjab 1848–9.
_d._ Mussoorie, North West Provinces of India 23 Aug. 1892.
PALMER, HENRY ANDREWES (son of Arthur Palmer of Bristol,
solicitor). _b._ 1803; articled to his father 1817–22; solicitor
at Bristol 1826–60; comr. of bankruptcy for Bristol district
1833 to date when local courts of bankruptcy were established;
registrar and deputy judge of the Tolzey court, Bristol 1838–60;
defended owner of Ashton Court estates against Thomas Provis,
calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth, 8–10 Aug. 1853, he
was found guilty of perjury and forgery and sentenced to be
transported for 20 years. _d._ South Dulwich 16 Dec. 1884.
_Solicitor’s Journal 3 Jany. 1885 p._ 156.
PALMER, HENRY SPENCER (youngest son of colonel John Freke Palmer
of the East India company’s service). _b._ Bangalore, Madras 30
April 1838; lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1856, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882,
retired with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1887; surveyed in British
Columbia 1858–63; joined the ordnance survey Dec. 1863, surveyed
Kent and East Sussex; assistant comr. in the parliamentary
boundaries’ commission 1867–8 and 1869; surveyed the Sinaitic
peninsula Oct. 1868 to May 1869; chief of the party sent to New
Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, June 1874; went to
Barbados Nov. 1875, A.D.C. to the governor Feb. 1877 to March
1878; went to Hongkong Jany. 1878, engineer of the admiralty
works, A.D.C. to the governor 11 May 1878 to June 1880; designed
a physical observatory for Hong Kong 1881; commanding R.E. of
the Manchester district July 1883; designed and constructed
waterworks for Yokohama, Japan 1883–7; superintendent of the
Yokohama harbour works and engineer to the Yokohama docks’
company 1889 to death; published with sir C. W. Wilson Ordnance
survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, &c. 1869; author of The
ordnance survey of the kingdom: its objects, mode of execution,
history, and present condition 1873; Ancient history from the
monuments, Sinai from the fourth Egyptian dynasty to the present
day 1878, new ed. 1892. _d._ Tokio, Japan 10 March 1893. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxiii_ 373–5 (1893).
PALMER, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (youngest son of John Palmer
1752–1827, R. of Great Torrington, Devon). _b._ Torrington 27
June 1803; a surgeon in London to 1839; surgeon to St. George’s
and St. James’s dispensary to 1838; went to New South Wales
1839; a doctor at Port Philip some time, then a manufacturer of
cordials, then a wine merchant; mayor of Melbourne 1846; member
for Port Philip of legislature of New South Wales Sept. 1848 to
July 1849; member for Normanby district of legislative council
of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851, elected speaker Dec. 1851; member for
Western province to the new legislative council 23 Nov. 1855,
first president 21 Nov. 1856, re-elected five times, resigned
Oct. 1870; knighted by patent 13 July 1857; edited The works of
John Hunter, 4 vols. 1835–7; and A dialogue in the Devonshire
dialect 1837. _d._ Burwood road, Hawthorn, Melbourne 23 April
1871. _Colby’s Pedigree of Palmer family_ (1892) 7–9.
PALMER, JOHN BERNARD (son of Wm. Palmer of Charmouth, Dorset,
farmer). _b._ 15 Oct. 1782; joined the Church of Rome 1806;
a novice in the Cistercian monastery of St. Susan, Lulworth,
Dorset 1808, professed there by the name of Bernard 21 Nov.
1810; received minor orders at the abbey of La Meilleraie, near
Nantes, where the community had taken refuge in 1817; the abbey
was suppressed 1831 and Palmer was confined at Nantes by the
French government 1831–7; joined a community of Cistercian monks
in Charnwood forest, Leics. March 1837, received priest’s orders
31 July 1838, superior of the monastery 1841, a new monastery
called Mount St. Bernard was built by Pugin 1844, the monastery
was constituted an abbey and Palmer appointed abbot 9 May 1848,
consecrated with mitre, crozier, ring, and gloves 18 Feb. 1849,
being the first English mitred abbot since the reformation. _d._
Mount St. Bernard abbey 10 Nov. 1852. _The metropolitan and
provincial catholic almanac for 1855 pp._ 1–16 _portrait_; _G.M.
Jany. 1853 p._ 101.
PALMER, JOHN HINDE (only son of Samuel Palmer of Dulwich common,
Surrey). _b._ Surrey 1808; barrister L.I. 24 Jany. 1832, bencher
16 June 1869 to death; Q.C. 10 June 1859; contested Lambeth 7
Aug. 1850; M.P. Lincoln 16 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested
Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874. _d._ 11 St. George’s sq. London 2 June 1884.
PALMER, JOHN HORSLEY (4 son of Wm. Palmer of Nazeing park,
Essex). _b._ 7 July 1779; partner with his brother George
Palmer and captain Wilson as East India merchants in City of
London 1802, retired April 1857; a director of the bank of
England 1811–57, governor 1830–2, gave evidence before the
committee of secrecy on the bank of England charter 1832; a
leading authority on currency and finance; a member of royal
commission on bankruptcy and insolvency 4 Dec. 1839; examined
by select committee on banks of issue 1840; author of Reasons
against the proposed Indian joint-stock bank 1836; The causes
and consequences of the pressure upon the money market, with a
statement of the action of the bank of England from 1 Oct. 1833
to 27 Dec. 1836, 1837; Reply to the reflections of Mr. Samuel
Jones Lloyd on the pamphlet entitled ‘Causes and consequences’
1837. _d._ Mulgrave house, Hurlingham, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1858.
_Maclaren’s History of the currency_ (1858) 173–8.
PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor
for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). _b._
Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister
I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of
bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich;
recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. _d._ Coltishall,
near Norwich 30 March 1872. _Law journal vii_ 264 (1872).
PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White
Horse inn, Preston). _b._ Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to
Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted
attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one
of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk
of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of
1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour;
N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were
conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850,
resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the
127th time 7 Aug. 1852. _d._ Preston 13 Dec. 1852. _G.M. Feb.
1853 pp._ 212–3.
PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning,
Berks.) _b._ 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.;
sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks.
quarter sessions. _d._ Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872.
_bur._ Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 527 (1872).