Modern English biography

_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